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McTlán is the sequel to Steven Alvarez's Codex Mojaodicus, a Xicanx mythopoetic dream cycle
journey spiraling into histories, geographies, and langscapes of the Americas. In this novel in
verse, protagonist Chaley Chastitellez journeys deep into the underworld of McTlán and into
visions of destinies that prefigure disgorged, decolonial codices of three generations. In McTlán,
Chaley reckons with the ghosts of his ancestors and also the toxic masculinity of their 'chero
ways. Alvarez assembles layers of artifacts that span the hemisphere, across borders between
genres, forms, and languages.
About the author
Steven Alvarez is the author of The Codex Mojaodicus, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize. He has also authored the novels in verse The Pocho Codex and The Xicano Genome, both published by Editorial Paroxismo, and the chapbooks, Tonalamatl, El Segundo's Dream Notes (Letter [r] Press), Un/documented, Kentucky (winner of the Rusty Toque Chapbook Prize), and Six Poems from the Codex Mojaodicus (winner of the Seven Kitchens Press Rane Arroyo Poetry Prize). His work has appeared in the Best Experimental Writing, Anomaly, Asymptote, Berkeley Poetry Review, Fence, MAKE, The Offing, and Waxwing. Follow Steven on Instagram @stevenpaulalvarez and Twitter @chastitellez.
