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Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien

Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien

Paperback

General PoetryImmigration & Refugees

Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 1946031720
ISBN13: 9781946031723
Publisher: Operating System
Published: Feb 22 2020
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.32 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

'Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien' brilliantly expands the conversation on undocumented migration by tracing the legacy of illegality. Claiming 'every crossing becomes mine, ' Alan Pelaez Lopez, as fugitive alien, bravely takes on the task of traveling across galaxies to reach an elsewhere that is something more like a new holding. Against the failure of political language, this book of multimedia poems becomes a verb, an active imagining that takes the banality of papers and transforms it into poetry. This intergalactic traveling brings the 'Black NDN' migrant touchingly back to their mother's arms, and to her vision for life. If illegality is to be their legacy, Alan reimagines that illegality as both disruptive of settler-futures and productive for black and indigenous futures. We should be immensely grateful for this vision.

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