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This is the latest installment of El Mirador, an ongoing series curated by Francisco Cantú. Spanish for “the lookout point,” El Mirador collects original nonfiction, translation, and visual art on the American West, the US/Mexico borderlands, and Indian Country. The bus from Hermosillo had rimmed out and leveled off on top of the Sierra Madre to begin its can-of-worms slide into Chihuahua when, from the pack between my legs, I took out my map.
Even if, like the Paris Review’s “Daily” blog, you’ve been keeping your exquisitely curated cultural world a “Go Set a Watchman–free space,” you must have heard by now: Harper Lee’s novel sucks.1 ... Even if, like the Paris Review’s “Daily” blog, you’ve been keeping your exquisitely curated cultural world a “Go Set a Watchman–free space,” you must have heard by now: Harper Lee’s novel sucks.
Adrienne Su’s accomplished new book of poems Living Quarters invites meditation on the material specificities of too-readily-typecast locales. Recalibrating the geographical and cultural tropes of American nature writing, Living Quarters offers readers a portrait of rural modernity rather than pastoral nostalgia—a portrait that unsettles the divisions of agricultural versus industrial and provincial versus cosmopolitan that have long defined ideas of place in the American national imaginary.
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