Poetry. Art. Retrazos is a Spanish term used to describe the stenciled remnants that a seamstress leaves on the floor after making garments. Carlos M. Luis gathered such defiled 'retraces,' along with magazine clippings and other found materials and repurposed them into a series of two dozen or so of the renderings that appear in this chapbook. Inspired by these images and also the Popol Vuh, Derek White weaves together textual fragments into associative personal myths that deal with cornhusks, geometry, puberty, roosters, quantum basketball, court trials, genetics, dirty laundry, brick making, fish and graduating as a foreigner from a polluted lake in Mexico. "ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos calls up the etymological meaning of the word "text," a piece of weaving; not only does the narrative fray and reknit itself, but word and image have equal weight in weaving the text as a whole"--Joyelle McSweeney.

ma(I)ze Tassel Retrazos

Literature & Fiction

WHITE, DEREK

Luis, Carlos

Poetry

Calamari Press

<p>Featuring Julio Galan & Graciela Iturbide, this handsome volume also includes the work of ten other contemporary Mexican artists who portray everyday life with a reverence reserved for religious ceremony. In the words of ESPIRITU essayist Luis Carlos Emerich, "The artistic Pluralism that surged in Mexico in the 1980s & intensified in the 1990s encouraged the expression of a multitude of creative meanings. Thus we observe that the works exhibited here abound in self-affirmations, but echo hauntingly the reverberations of Mexico's historical & cultural past." Artists include Alfredo Castaneda, Monica Castillo, Georgina Quintana, Adolfo Riestra, German Venegas & Nahum Zenil. Essay by Luis Carlos Emerich, 57 pages, 47 illustrations. FAX orders to 619-743-6472, attention Catherine Gleason.</p>

Espíritu: September 16, 1995 through January 14, 1996 = Del 16 de septiembre de 1995 al 14 de enero de 1996 : Julio Galán ... [et al.]

California Center for the Arts Museum (Escondido Calif.) Emerich

California Center for the Arts Museum

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