Category: Cultures Publisher: I Om Be Press
Type: Fiction
Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781882161003
Hyper-quotidian aesthetics. A commentary without visa. A building-universe-a each apartments´s possible life. NYC. Dominicans.
A performance theatre text
(a text that performs, a text from
performance or a text to perform)
with character(s).
A novel in Dominicanish.
A poem with grajo.
A commentary without visa
neither a dream.
A film script for one actor to exercise
her many cells; for many actresses
without make-up nor private camerinos
nor adopted or twin kids.
Hyper-quotidian aesthetic.
Realismo panfletario.
Saga simplista.
Bucle interminable.
Eros con un pa’cá y un pa’llá,
buscando lo que no se le ha perdido.
Una isla-pueblo-barrio-mundo-edificio.
Película diaria.
Documental de todos los días.
Donde si ves algo no se dice algo.
Se dice de más.
Aquí es Manhattan. Allá, Erre De.
Tú, yo o alguien a quien conocemos.
Dominican. o no.
Excerpt
Ella:
¡Whatever!
But in terms of my name...
none of the above ‘mija.
I am pure history. Mira. Seat.
Seat and listen.
My name is Quisqueya Amada
Taína Anaisa Altagracia.
You can call me Kay.
El cocolo, mi timacle, calls me
chula. He calls me Chula and his
derriengue. And the rest
Gorda. They call me La Gorda.
Since I got my working papers,
I have been working as a cashier
in supermarkets. Los boses son
Dominicanos también. Creen
que están allá. Miseriosos y
mandones. Si me descuido
también me lo meten.
Professional Reviews
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