Southernmost : sonnets
Boix, Leonardo, 1975-2025
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Leo Boix takes us on a spellbinding voyage through time and imagination, from the Argentina of his birth - 'the end of the world, the antipode' - to a new life in England. Unearthing an old grief, the poet embarks on a glittering, encyclopaedic exploration of the Latin America he left behind: a journey through personal memory into a continent's past, haunted by the Europeans who once fixed their telescopes on its shores. Helping us 'see faces history can't reach', 'Southernmost' reveals truths hidden in plain sight: the devastation of indigenous peoples and their lands; dissidents disappeared by the junta; a mother's concealed cancer diagnosis; the clarifying sexuality of a boy whose father can't bear to acknowledge it.
Main title:
Southernmost : sonnets / Leo Boix.
Author:
Boix, Leonardo, 1975-, author
Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2025.
Collation:
96 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781784745851 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
821.92821.92 BOI
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
7639613