Posts Tagged ‘The lusting for infinity’
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Excesses of the Latin American body / Excesos del cuerpo latinoamericano
The disease imaginary (and health, as its binary opposition) is culturally diverse and sometimes contradictory. For example, in Mexico the relationship with death is not a conceptual antonym of life; the idea of death[1], as with life, is festive and politically incorrect. In Mexico, we know that all the paths to permanence […]
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Pharmacopornographic dawn day one / Amanecer Farmacopornográfico día uno
The following poem is taken from the book Farmacotopía (awarded the Gilberto Owen Poetry Prize in 2011), by Óscar David López, and was translated into English by Cristina Rivera-Garza. Pharmacopornographic Dawn Day One, was published in “New American Writing” in the New political poetry from Mexico series. It is important to note that Farmacotopía will […]