Hey, Marfa /
Situated in the outreaches of southwest Texas, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists, immigrants looking for work and ranchers, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced th...
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Graywolf Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Situated in the outreaches of southwest Texas, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists, immigrants looking for work and ranchers, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert, township, sky and time itself as a profound clash of dislocation and familiarity. What does it mean to survive in a physical and metaphorical desert? How does a habitat long associated with wilderness and death become a center for nourishment and art? Out of those experiences and questions, Yang has fashioned a fascinating, multifaceted work, an anti-travel guide, an anti-Western, a book of last words, that is a lyrical, anthropological investigation into history, culture and extremity of place. Paintings and drawings of Marfa's landscapes and substations by the artist Rackstraw Downes intertwine with Yang's texts as mutual nodes and lines of energy. Hey, Marfa is a desert diary scaled to music that aspires to emit particles of light. |
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| Physical Description: | 151 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781555978198 1555978193 |