{"product_id":"buzzing-hemisphere-rumor-hemisferico-camino-del-sol-by-urayoan-noel","title":"Buzzing Hemisphere \/ Rumor Hemisférico (Camino del Sol) \/ by Urayoán Noel","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Arizona Press, 2015. Trade pb. VG. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIs poetry an alternative to or an extension of a globalized language? In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBuzzing Hemisphere \/ Rumor Hemisférico,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e poet Urayoán Noel maps the spaces between and across languages, cities, and bodies, creating a hemispheric poetics that is both broadly geopolitical and intimately neurological.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this expansive collection, we hear the noise of cities such as New York, San Juan, and São Paulo abuzz with flickering bodies and the rush of vernaculars as untranslatable as the murmur in the Spanish \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003erumor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Oscillating between baroque textuality and vernacular performance, Noel\u0026amp;;s bilingual poems experiment with eccentric self-translation, often blurring the line between original and translation as a way to question language hierarchies and allow for translingual experiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA number of the poems and self-translations here were composed on a smartphone, or else de- and re-composed with a variety of smartphone apps and tools, in an effort to investigate the promise and pitfalls of digital vernaculars. Noel\u0026amp;;s poetics of performative self-translation operates not only across languages and cultures but also across forms: from the décima and the \u0026amp;;staircase sonnet\u0026amp;; to the collage, the abecedarian poem, and the performance poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn its playful and irreverent mash-up of voices and poetic traditions from across the Americas, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBuzzing Hemisphere \/ Rumor Hemisférico\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e imagines an alternative to the monolingualism of the U.S. literary and political landscape, and proposes a geo-neuro-political performance attuned to damaged or marginalized forms of knowledge, perception, and identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46495872123046,"sku":null,"price":9.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/buzzing.webp?v=1752423661","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/buzzing-hemisphere-rumor-hemisferico-camino-del-sol-by-urayoan-noel","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}