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Author(s): Natalie Scenters-Zapico
ISBN(s): 9781885635433, 1885635435
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.18 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1885635433

ISBN 13:  ‎ 978-1885635433

Author: Natalie Scenters-Zapico

From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-México border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which international politics affect the individual. Composed in a variety of forms, from sonnet and epithalamium to endnotes and field notes, each poem distills violent stories of narcos, undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and the people who fall in love with each other and their traumas.

The border in Scenters-Zapico’s The Verging Cities exists in a visceral place where the real is (sur)real. In these poems mouths speak suspended from ceilings, numbered metal poles mark the border and lovers’ spines, and cities scream to each other at night through fences that “ooze only silt.” This bold new vision of border life between what has been named the safest city in the United States and the murder capital of the world is in deep conversation with other border poets—Benjamin Alire Saenz, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alberto Ríos, and Luis Alberto Urrea—while establishing itself as a new and haunting interpretation of the border as a verge, the beginning of one thing and the end of another in constant cycle.

 

Table of contents: 

CON/VERGE

  1. Crossing

  2. How Borders Are Built

  3. Bibbed in Paisley

  4. He Reads Žižek Instead

  5. Dear Angel, Sunday Mornings

  6. The Corner Store Clerk Says

  7. Her Name Was Ofelia

  8. After I Read Your Obituary

  9. Photos Found on a Dead Man’s Phone

  10. Because They Lack Country

  11. angel & i

  12. Broken

  13. Initials

  14. In a Half-Full Bathtub

  15. I Light the House on Fire and Lie Down

  16. Notes on Ciudad Juárez, as a Play

  17. The Verging Cities

  18. Watch Me

  19. When the Desert Made Us Visible

DI/VERGE
20. Succulence
21. It’s the Heat That Wakes Us
22. Woman Found Near Sunland Park Mall
23. A Torero’s Daughter Is Killed
24. La Mariscal
25. Ciudad Juárez, México
26. Placement
27. A Place to Hide the Body
28. Guerrero
29. Pears
30. The Archeologist Came to Hunt Trilobites
31. In a Dust Storm
32. Mouth in My Kitchen
33. Angel Reassures Me I Have Escaped the Verging Cities
34. A Mass Grave Washed
35. When the Desert Made Us Invisible

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