CLOSURE: Central Library will be closed Tuesday, July 21, through Saturday, July 25, while emergency repairs are made to the building’s cooling system. We expect to reopen Monday, July 27. Click for more details on holds, program schedules, and returns during the closure. 

Book

Indifferent cities

Call Number

  • 811 G215 (CEN, OSH)

Browse similar titles by call number

Edition

First paperback edition.

Languages

In English, with brief quotations in Spanish.

Publication Information

North Adams, MA : Tupelo Press, 2025.

Physical Description

141 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

Indifferent Cities is a poetry collection that explores themes of family, migration, and identity across multiple generations between Mexico and the United States. Using a variety of forms--including ekphrasis and epistolary--the work incorporates photographs, postcards, official documents, and personal narratives to examine the consequences of migration, the inheritance of cultural memory, and the complexities of belonging.

Contents

  • Cenotes
  • ONE. Mexico City, 1985
  • Inhalar
  • Disinheritance
  • Leaving home, 1986
  • Sin Nombre
  • On visiting Mexico City, 2014
  • Topography
  • Progreso, 2023
  • Palíndromo
  • Yaxchilán, 2017
  • Leaving home in reverse, 1986
  • Brownsville, 1980
  • Cancún, 1978
  • Mexicali, 1952
  • Those graves
  • Vestiges
  • TWO. Postales (1925)
  • THREE. A child of immigrants
  • Lessons in unknowing
  • A desire for fluency
  • Burials
  • Mourning
  • Clave: In the rhythm of displacement
  • Places I've learned to forget
  • Haunted
  • Kindling
  • Water
  • Luto
  • Herencia
  • Rompecabezas
  • An emptied house
  • Regret
  • Pastimes
  • Canto for my love language
  • Contenga la respiración
  • Diptych
  • FOUR. Mojado (1949)
  • Thirteen years old (1934)
  • Emancipación (Nov 1941)
  • Luna de miel (Nov. 1941)
  • Telegram (Oct. 1942)
  • Covenant (Nov. 1942)
  • Pirámide de hombres (1943)
  • Las lavanderas (c. 1945)
  • La bestia (1945)
  • Sin zapatos (1948)
  • Thalassophobia (1952)
  • Deportation (1952)
  • 3-day road trip (1956)
  • Hotel Moreno (1959)
  • Thirteen years old (1961)
  • Asesinato (1963)
  • 9-day road trip (1964)
  • La Marea (1942-1964)
  • FIVE. Those flowers
  • SIX. The road from my mother's womb
  • Bautizo
  • The river coursing through us is dirty and deep
  • Before
  • Detained
  • Time echoes like church bells
  • Dear fake father and fake mother,
  • Nene
  • Pesadilla
  • Partial interview
  • In a dream my father has a stroke
  • Visiting my grandmother's grave, I visit her house in a dream
  • Cuéntame un cuento
  • Layover / overlay
  • Secuestro
  • [Memory] is a space
  • On a good day
  • Exhalar
  • Through the snow
  • Disculpa
  • Guadalajara
  • Hogar.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.