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POETRY
82 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.00)
Publication Date: October 2008
ISBN 9781931824309
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Oct 2008)
Mónica de la Torre’s Public Domain arrives from Mexico with the ambition to be a personal and conceptual anthology. Public Domain's constantly shifting formats remind one that experimentation is driven by glee at noticing how malleable the world can be. In pieces that range from introductions at a fictive poetry reading of a poem titled "Letters Are What’s in a Name," de la Torre takes us on a bilingual romp through the opportunities for form to reveal how society works. In one piece she writes a series of letters addressed by an orphan to her biological mother, Mónica de la Torre, who might be a transsexual model, a scientist who studies “the properties of fried and baked tortilla chips,” or the member of a high school varsity team.
Mónica de la Torre is a poet, translator, and scholar was born and raised in Mexico City. She earned a BA from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and, with the support of a Fulbright scholarship, relocated to New York in 1993 to pursue an MFA and a PhD in Spanish literature at Columbia University. De la Torre’s honors include a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. She has edited BOMB Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Brooklyn College. Her books include, Public Domain (Roof), Repetition Nineteen and The Happy End / All Welcome.