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Cutting the Wire: Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border
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Cutting the Wire: Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border
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Overview
Winner of the 2019 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association2018 Southwest Books of the YearCutting the Wire, a masterful collaboration between photographer Bruce Berman and poets Ray Gonzalez and Lawrence Welsh, offers us a way to look again, to really look, at the border between Mexico and the United States. Berman, who has photographed and lived in El Paso for decades, is a documentarian who uses his camera to record what's in front of him rather than for, as he puts it, "mere self-expression." Berman's visual investigations of the everyday realities of the border—detention centers, smeltertown cemeteries, kids playing along a river levee, descanso crosses on telephone poles for the disappeared—are exactly the stuff the poetry of Gonzalez and Welsh is made of. The multilayered histories of the border landscape provide an inexhaustible supply of rich and fertile raw material for both Gonzalez and Welsh. But their poetic visions allow them to capture elements of a personal and collective past that historians have often failed to record.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780826359001 |
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| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Publication date: | 10/15/2018 |
| Pages: | 136 |
| Product dimensions: | 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Bruce Berman is an associate professor of photojournalism at New Mexico State University and has been a working photojournalist for national and international publications since the late 1960s. For the past thirty-five years his work has concentrated on the borderlands area that encompasses El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, Mexico.
Ray Gonzalez is a professor of literature at the University of Minnesota. He is also the recipient of the Carr P. Collins / Texas Institute of Letters Award, the PEN / Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award, the Western Heritage Award, the Latino Heritage Award, and the Minnesota Book Award, and he was recently rewarded the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress.
Lawrence Welsh is a professor of English at El Paso Community College. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including the award-winning Begging for Vultures: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009 (UNM Press). An award-winning journalist and essayist, his work has appeared in more than two hundred national and regional publications.
Ray Gonzalez is a professor of literature at the University of Minnesota. He is also the recipient of the Carr P. Collins / Texas Institute of Letters Award, the PEN / Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award, the Western Heritage Award, the Latino Heritage Award, and the Minnesota Book Award, and he was recently rewarded the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress.
Lawrence Welsh is a professor of English at El Paso Community College. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including the award-winning Begging for Vultures: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2009 (UNM Press). An award-winning journalist and essayist, his work has appeared in more than two hundred national and regional publications.
Table of Contents
Editor's Note Lisa McNielIntroduction David Dorado Romo Bruce Berman and Ray GonzalezIt Should Have Happened Long AgoEl PasoThe Fingers Light the Western StarsUnder the AdobeIn My HandsThe Desert FloorFootprintsBlack Border WallDistanceIt Flew AwayT-Shirt Shop on Santa Fe StreetTortilla FactoryThe Visitations on Alameda StreetHome TownWoodChamberinoResler CanyonEverything that Comes before Reason, Aguirre Springs, Organ MountainsTrying to Write PoetryPray LizardLooking for the ScorpionBilingualThe Cave at Bear Paws Site, Franklin MountainsSearching for Max Ernst in Sedona, ArizonaMemorize the TreesSolitudeMesilla MoonThe Border Is a Line Bruce Berman and Lawrence WelshDyer's AngelsThe CrossingDesert Moon DriverVirgin / San LorenzoRoad to El Paso—RevisitedMay 31Shadow BurnMesa BluesSmeltertown CrucifixLast Exit: DoniphanSocorro General StoreToward ChinatiOld RailroadersThe InitiateNew RosaryBorder LightWolf and SunflowerDyerPuro Oro GrandeYellow Carnations / Day of the DeadA Bath for Oro GrandeEl Paso Smelter at Night, 1919Ghosts of AsarcoThe Gutting of Wildhare'sWhere the Boys AreAfter the Sons of VillaOld Border Highway BluesSomewhere in TexasContributorsFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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