The Poetry of Polycrisis

Yesinia Montilla Muse Found in a Colonized Body Four Way Books Afro-Latina poet Montillas Muse is marked by hyperawareness and self-consciousness of the fact that survival in a gentrified and gentrifying city affects ones sense of identity and the nature of art production. In such a setting, the art...

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Published in:World literature today 2024-03, Vol.98 (2), p.56-56
Main Author: Nash, Susan Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Yesinia Montilla Muse Found in a Colonized Body Four Way Books Afro-Latina poet Montillas Muse is marked by hyperawareness and self-consciousness of the fact that survival in a gentrified and gentrifying city affects ones sense of identity and the nature of art production. In such a setting, the artist runs the risk of externalizing the legitimizing gaze and putting it squarely in the hands of the critic (the gentrifier of art and poetics). Agathi Dimitrouka Laureles de silencio (Spanish/Greek) Abisinia Editorial The first poem of this collection from Argentina, "For the Hanged Dogs," exhorts readers to "Hang the dogs in the olive trees / so their tears flow like oil / and close the eyes of our dead."
ISSN:0196-3570
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1945-8134
DOI:10.1353/wlt.2024.a920900