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Lotería
2023
Overview
The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a
village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you
recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through
paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty
of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each
movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this
moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. Lotería: Nocturnal
Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age
poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate
experiences of displacement. Conjuring dreamlike visions of
extravagant fruits and rivers animated by the power of divination,
these poems follow the speaker from the lash of war's arrival
through an urgent escape and reinvention in a land that saves with
maternal instinct but also smothers its children. In this bilingual
collection, Colombian American poet Elizabeth Torres threads
together the stories of family dynamics and the realities of
migration with the archetypes of tarot and the traditional Lotería
game, used for centuries as an object of divination and
entertainment. Through these themes and images, the poems in
Lotería narrate intimate moments in the lives and journeys
of migrants, refugees, and all who have been forced into
metamorphosis in order to reach the other side of the river.
Publisher
University of Arizona Press,The University of Arizona Press
Subject
ISBN
9780816549603, 0816549605, 0816549613, 9780816549610
