Remains

ISBN-13: 9781940450421 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 100 str.

Jesus Castillo

Opis

Jesus Castillo has created a sprawling contemporary epic that channels the mighty voices of the past (Ovid, Sappho) into a plainspoken song of our times. In a deft, generous style, Castillo takes hold of the stuff of our everyday lives and converts it into modern manna. The book is lovingly relentless, quietly piercing. It is a terrifyingly recognizable call: it is filled with all of our voices, our panic, our modern love, our screens, our roommate s cough, our melting icebergs, our planes and malls and frailties. Castillo writes,
This is a test. A set of margins created
for company. For waiting in train stations
or asking a stranger the time. You re allowed
to freak out this much only. There s a green car
parked outside, by the curb, near the bike racks.
An old man is asking people to put
change in his plastic cup, and I remember
my name contains both my father s and
grandfather s stories. The table I m sitting at
is made of steel and marble. It s cold and it s
spring. In the song on the radio, a noise"