{"id":51106,"date":"2017-01-09T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51106"},"modified":"2017-03-28T18:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T18:52:01","slug":"the-verging-cities-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51106","title":{"rendered":"The Verging Cities, Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoreview.colostate.edu\/books\/the-verging-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Verging Cities, Poetry<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoreview.colostate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center For Literary Publishing<\/a><br \/>\n2015<br \/>\n80 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-885635-43-3<br \/>\n6.5 x 8.5 inches<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nataliescenterszapico.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Natalie Scenters-Zapico<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoreview.colostate.edu\/books\/the-verging-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/coloradoreview.colostate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/The-Verging-Cities-front-cover-final-e1426096641616.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poets and Writers Top Debut Poets 2015<\/li>\n<li>Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award<\/li>\n<li>NACCS-Tejas Foco Best Poetry Book of 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Ninth in the Mountain West Poetry Series, edited by Stephanie G\u2019Schwind &amp; Donald Revell<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico\u2019s gripping debut collection, <em>The Verging Cities<\/em>, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border\" target=\"_blank\">US-M\u00e9xico border<\/a> in the sister cities of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Paso,_Texas\" target=\"_blank\">El Paso, Texas<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez\" target=\"_blank\">Cd. Ju\u00e1rez, Chihuahua<\/a>, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which international politics affect the individual. Composed in a variety of forms, from sonnet and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/epithalamium\" target=\"_blank\">epithalamium<\/a> to endnotes and field notes, each poem distills violent stories of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/narco#Spanish\" target=\"_blank\">narcos<\/a>, undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and the people who fall in love with each other and their traumas.<\/p>\n<p>The border in Scenters-Zapico\u2019s <em>The Verging Cities<\/em> exists in a visceral place where the real is (sur)real. In these poems mouths speak suspended from ceilings, numbered metal poles mark the border and lovers\u2019 spines, and cities scream to each other at night through fences that \u201cooze only silt.\u201d This bold new vision of border life between what has been named the safest city in the United States and the murder capital of the world is in deep conversation with other border poets\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Alire_S%C3%A1enz\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Alire Saenz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloria_E._Anzald%C3%BAa\" target=\"_blank\">Gloria Anzald\u00faa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alberto_R%C3%ADos\" target=\"_blank\">Alberto R\u00edos<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lu%C3%ADs_Alberto_Urrea\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Alberto Urrea<\/a>\u2014while establishing itself as a new and haunting interpretation of the border as a verge, the beginning of one thing and the end of another in constant cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Read an excerpt <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoreview.colostate.edu\/bookstore\/excerpt-from-the-verging-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico\u2019s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-M\u00e9xico border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Ju\u00e1rez, Chihuahua, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which international politics affect the individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,14646,8,103,1617,20],"tags":[25949,25948],"class_list":["post-51106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-poetry-books","category-usa","tag-center-for-literary-publishing","tag-natalie-scenters-zapico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53030,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51106\/revisions\/53030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}