Death on Rua Augusta - Hardcover

Tedi Lopez Mills

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908998229 ISBN 13: 9781908998224

Publisher: Eyewear Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Borges meets Chandler via Márquez in this poetry novel in translation from one of Mexico s best known and beloved authors, winner of the Xavier Villaurutia Prize. Translated by Bolaño s translator, Dylan Thomas Prize shortlisted poet David Shook. After being let go from his job due to his unstable behaviour, Mr Gordon experiences the unfolding of his spirit in an artificial Californian Eden. In the shade of a thousand-leaved tree, very near a pool s edge, Gordon transcribes his thoughts, memories and questions while he tries to cope with abuse from his wife and his best friend, and battle dialogues emanating from an interior voice reminding us of Berryman s Mr Bones. Death on Rua Augusta is the diary of a person who cannibalises themselves. In this important narrative poem, Tedi Lopez Mills dives magisterially into the machine of the mind to locate the fine line that keeps us tied to the world. A chapter-based novel in poetry form, Tedi Lopez Mills has written Death on Rua Augusta in the magic-realist tradition, drawing on film noir and West Coast thrillers making this a cinematically surreal and strange delight for all readers.

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About the Author

Tedi López Mills was born in Mexico City in 1959. She studied philosophy at the Mexican National University and literature at the Sorbonne. She has published ten books of poetry: Segunda persona, Horas, Luz por aire y agua, Contracorriente, Parafrasear, to mention a few, and most recently, Muerte en la rúa Augusta, and also two books of prose: La noche en blanco de Mallarmé and Libro de las explicaciones. She has translated the work of numerous American, English and French poets. Her poetry book Contracorriente is being translated into English with a grant awarded by the National Endowment of the Arts. She lives in Mexico City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eyewear Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908998229
• ISBN 13: 9781908998224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208