Copy

From Mexican-born Poet Dolores Dorantes, Copy Is A Book-length Prose Poem Examining Extrication, Refuge, And Reintegration, Presented In English For The First Time By Award-winning Translator Robin Meyers.through Deconstructed Dictionary Entries And Powerfully Syncopated, Recursive Texts, Copy Is A Prose Poem Sequence That Insinuates An Experience Of Violent Removal: A Persons Disappearance From A Country, From Normal Life, And Forcible Reintegration Into A Social And Existential Configuration. Meditative, Urgent, And Alive, Copy Asserts Itself As An Invocation, Both Intensely Personal And Insistently Communal, Of The Right To Refuge, And It Enacts A Powerful Homage To The Human Capacity For Creation And Metamorphosis. In This Way, This Book Points To The Wound Of Being Extricated, Serving As Both A Suture And A Salve.