Description
From one of Mexico's premier poets, the award-winning Tedi Lopez Mills, a hybrid, genre-defying book of essays following the unusual and surprising complexities of everyday life. Through thirteen essays, Tedi Lopez Mills explores the minutiae that at first glance go unnoticed. In "Improper Nouns," she explores the history and destiny of an uncomfortable name, asking whether the way we name what surrounds us affects the fabric of its essence. In "How Time Passes, In Consciousness and Outside," one's individual experience of time splits from how it passes outside us. The following essays allude to conscience, pain, private histories, dreams, wisdom, and the most difficult of memories that build one's own identity. Throughout, Lopez Mills traces the trail of her own history, journeying into her own conscience and the mysteries of existence.
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About the Author
Tedi Lopez Mills is one of Mexico's foremost poets writing today. Born in Mexico City in 1959, she studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and literature at the Sorbonne. She is the author of ten books of and two essay collections, several of which have received national literary prizes. An English edition of Against the Current, in translation by Wendy Burke, was published by Phoneme Media in 2016. Lopez Mills sets the pace for her contemporaries with work that is linguistically inventive and philosophically rigorous. She invokes the classics, the troubadours, and the pastoral tradition with an underlying skepticism about language, landscape, and causality that keeps her work current, engaging the eye while troubling the "I." She lives in Mexico City, Mexico. Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based translator and poet. Book-length translations include Another Life by Daniel Lipara (Eulalia Books, Fall 2021), The Restless Dead by Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press, 2020), Cars on Fire by Monica Ramon Rios (Open Letter, 2020), Animals at the End of the World (University of Texas Press, 2020), and Lyric Poetry Is Dead by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Cardboard House Press, 2018). Other work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, The Common, the Harvard Review, Two Lines, Waxwing, World Literature Today, Asymptote, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She was among the winners of the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets) and is an alumna of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.
Book Information
ISBN 9781646051250
Author Tedi Lpez Mills
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
Serial rights targeting The Paris Review, Harper's, Iowa Review, BOMB, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Guernica, Granta, Kenyon Review Print and digital publicity targeting NPR, The Atlantic, Public Books, The Rumpus, Bookforum, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Lit Hub, The Millions, Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, The White Review, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, Asymptote, Music & Literature, A Public Space, Two Lines, and others Promotion at or events pitched for Texas Book Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, WordPlay, National Book Festival, Winter Institute; regional tour Review copies sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); publisher's e-newsletter to booksellers and reviewers
About the Author
Tedi Lopez Mills is one of Mexico's foremost poets writing today. Born in Mexico City in 1959, she studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and literature at the Sorbonne. She is the author of ten books of and two essay collections, several of which have received national literary prizes. An English edition of Against the Current, in translation by Wendy Burke, was published by Phoneme Media in 2016. Lopez Mills sets the pace for her contemporaries with work that is linguistically inventive and philosophically rigorous. She invokes the classics, the troubadours, and the pastoral tradition with an underlying skepticism about language, landscape, and causality that keeps her work current, engaging the eye while troubling the "I." She lives in Mexico City, Mexico. Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based translator and poet. Book-length translations include Another Life by Daniel Lipara (Eulalia Books, Fall 2021), The Restless Dead by Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press, 2020), Cars on Fire by Monica Ramon Rios (Open Letter, 2020), Animals at the End of the World (University of Texas Press, 2020), and Lyric Poetry Is Dead by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Cardboard House Press, 2018). Other work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, The Common, the Harvard Review, Two Lines, Waxwing, World Literature Today, Asymptote, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. She was among the winners of the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets) and is an alumna of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.
Book Information
ISBN 9781646051250
Author Tedi Lpez Mills
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
