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What Comes Back

by Javier Peñalosa
Robin Myers
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Veering between past and present, between ecological destruction and human violence, What Comes Back is a search for what has vanished and what remains.

Javier Peñalosa M.'s What Comes Back is a procession, a journey, a search for a body of water that has disappeared or gone elsewhere. Featured in separate sections, original Spanish poems and Robin Myers' English translations highlight tender ruminations on loss, memory, and communion. Just as landscapes witness and "preserve what happens along the length of them," so do people. We watch as travelers navigate realms between the living and the dead, past mountains and dried up rivers to map, trace, and remember the past and future. Several sections, each bearing the title "What Comes Back," guide readers on a looping voyage where they are "orbited around the gravity of what had come to be"—the absence of Mexico City's rivers, and other absences wrought by war, climate change, and forced migration. Rattled between ecological destruction and human violence, What Comes Back, what remains, is a desire to name the missing, to render belonging out of dispossession, endurance out of erasure—the spiritual urge toward connection and community.

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    April 30, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781619322967

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      • ISBN: 9781619322967
      • File size: 1486 KB

  • Languages

    • English

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    • Booklist

      March 1, 2024
      Mexican poet and screenwriter Pe�alosa M.'s bilingual collection is prescient and quietly mesmerizing. The geography of a ruined landscape ruminates with spectral voices, each in its own way attempting an accounting of a seemingly directionless trek through a subverted ecology of dried riverbeds and inventories of flotsam and jetsam abandoned like the dreams that carried them. In three evenly divided sections in English and Spanish, Pe�alosa M.'s rhythmic meditations journey through loss and eviction. In the opening section, ""What Comes Back / Los Que Regresan,"" a woman's voice tells us, "The city where I grew up was made of stone, but it's sinking into mud." Punctuated throughout this astonishing collection are shadows of lives lived, "A body's marginalia on the wall." A child's growth is marked on a stone wall. "And one afternoon Ra�l disappeared too. His stumbling and his flowers." The middle section, ""What Comes Back,"" gives names to the disembodied voices. Mar�a Eugenia, Ignacio, and Irma, who says "when you close your eyes while you talk, I imagine you coming out of the abyss and into your words." Pe�alosa M. gives voice to the displaced and chronicles and preserves, for a time, their journeys.

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