Description
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Appropriate for an account of life, and death, on the border between two countries, two worlds, two realities, by an author who has roots in both, this book bridges genres, of verse and memoir and journalism and creative nonfiction. As poetry of documentary witness it is a corrosive account (a word carefully chosen, for indeed there are bodies dissolved in acid in these pages), a harrowing but necessary confrontation with the horrific results of America's drug wars and trade pacts. Nominally set in El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico, it more truthfully occupies a hellscape straight out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting, and for all its terror it is just as marvelous a creation.
"Ed O'Casey's PROXIMIDAD is a gorgeous, harrowing memoir of identity and place.... O'Casey shows us how fragile and dread-edged even the fiercest of our loves can be. This is a wondrous first book." —Alex Lemon
Author Bio
Ed O'Casey earned an MA at the University of North Texas and an MFA at New Mexico State University. His poems have appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review, Cold Mountain Review, Tulane Review, pacifi - VIEW, Euphony, Poetry Quarterly, Whiskey Island, NANO Fiction, and West Trade Review. He lives in northern Wisconsin.
Author City: RHINELANDER, WI USA