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Death marks the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. This paper considers accounts of migrant death in contemporary poetry, examining the presence of migrants, necropower, and landscape in four works: Sara Uribe's Antígona González (Oaxaca: Sur+editions, 2012), Eduardo C. Corral's Slow Lightning (New Haven: Yale, 2012), Balam Rodrigo's Libro Centroamericano de los Muertos (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018), and Forrest Gander's Be With (New York: New Directions, 2018), drawing on recent theorizations of Achille Mbembé's idea of necropolitics/necropower from both United States and Mexican scholars. I argue that examining the poetic and the theoretical texts in light of one another offers new conclusions for both. The affective similarities across the poetic texts help connect the theorizations of necropolitics, showing that while it appears that the agents of necropower--cartel members and Border Patrol agents--are very different, they can be understood as similar actors, dressed differently. Meanwhile, examining the poems in light of necropolitical theory reveals the extent to which distinct literary traditions of representing violence and nature influence the way in which border deaths are understood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the use of poetry as interpretive and aesthetic inquiry into the meaning and experience of reproductive tourism. Drawing upon online infertility discussion forums (focused upon fertility travel to Cancun, Mexico) we experimented with three forms of found poetry as a method for listening deeply to participants. We describe our process and identify resonances as we listen to the extraordinarily resilient voices of women struggling with infertility. This inquiry raises distinctive ethical issues, departing from typical forms of qualitative analysis in emphasizing intuition, emotion, aesthetics and respectful play in the writing process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduces a number of Mexican poets who have contributed poems in vol. 26, num. 4 issue of the academic journal "Callaloo." Contribution of Ramón Rodríguez to the Mexican literary community; Description of the poetry of Jorge Brash; Names of literary works of José Luis Rivas.