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From Mexican-born poet Dolores Dorantes,
Copy is a book-length prose poem examining extrication, refuge, and reintegration, presented in English for the first time by award-winning translator Robin Meyers.
About the author
Dolores Dorantes is an Acharya in the Buddhist tradition, a journalist, writer, therapist, poet, performer, and sacred animal. She is a Mexican born in the mountains of Veracruz in 1973 but raised in Ciudad Juarez, in El Paso, which is just across the US border. In 2011, she fled her country and was granted political asylum in Los Angeles. Dorantes is Black and Nahua indigenous on her mother's side, Spaniard and mestiza on her father's side. Recent books translated into English are
The River, a collaboration with the artist Zoe Leonard, and
Style. Her socio-cultural writings and political-social reflections, along with the majority of her books, are part of the commons at www.doloresdorantes.blogspot.com. She believes in a United Latin America.
Robin Myers is a translator and poet. Recent and forthcoming translations include
Another Life by Daniel Lipara (Eulalia Books),
The Science of Departures by Adalber Salas Hernandez (Kenning Editions),
Cars on Fire by Monica Ramon Rios (Open Letter Books),
The Restless Dead by Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press), and
Animals at the End of the World by Gloria Susana Esquivel (University of Texas Press). She writes a monthly column for
Palette Poetry and lives in Mexico City.
Summary
From Mexican-born poet Dolores Dorantes, Copy is a book-length prose poem examining extrication, refuge, and reintegration, presented in English for the first time by award-winning translator Robin Meyers.
