Description
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize, THE CODEX MOJAODICUS is an adventure in form, an ambitious effort to topographically notate the many intersections of hemispheric Spanish and English in the Americas. THE CODEX MOJAODICUS mines, mimes, records and disgorges the impressions and dissertations of language as it is uttered, stuttered, and felt in a variety of tongues and heads. In these theatrical poems, Alvarez documents a multilingual field, tracing a Xicanx genome between and beyond linguistic landscapes, poetries, and histories.
"A wholly unanticipated amalgam of Edward Dorn and Ernesto Cardenal updated to embody a 'Neo Baroque Xicano experimentalism,' the work of Steven Alvarez is a standout in any context. It is all at once narrative, fragmentary, constructivist (unsynthesized), phantasmic, excessive, brash, documentary, and wide awake. Its fluid bilingualism is one of several strategies that achieve a layered stereo effect."—Brian Blanchfield
Author Bio
Steven Alvarez is the author of the novels-in-verse The Pocho Codex (2011) and The Xicano Genome (2013), both published by Editorial Paroxismo. He has also authored two chapbooks, Six Poems from the Codex Mojaodicus (2014, winner of the Seven Kitchens Press Rane Arroyo Poetry Prize) and Un/documented, Kentucky (2016, winner of the Rusty Toque Chapbook Prize). He lives in New York City.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA