{"product_id":"carbonate-of-copper-paperback-softback-9781531509705","title":"Carbonate of Copper (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531509705","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCarbonate of Copper\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoberto Tejada (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531509705\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e144 pages, 16 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.249 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBringing together lyric poetry, documentary photographs, and lives lived along the U.S.-Mexico borderland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Written during extended periods in Brownsville, McAllen, and Marfa, Texas, in \u003ci\u003eCarbonate of Copper \u003c\/i\u003eRoberto Tejada gives voice to unsettled stories from the past, as well as to present-day experiences of custody and displacement. The poems stage scenes adjacent to the U.S.-Mexico border and to the realities of migration warped by jarring political vitriol, bearing witness to past and present-day hazards and sorrows wagered by those in search of asylum. So enabled, these poems make visible not only the infrastructure of militarized surveillance and its detention complex but also the aspiration to justice and mercy and the resilient self-organized order of time for migrants seeking human dignity while awaiting passage to the other side of the dividing line.\u003cbr\u003e The book's title refers also to a mineral found in azurite and malachite, a color medium that had an impact on art during the first phase of globalization, the ensuing colonial enterprise, and its systems of extraction. Carbonate of copper was less desirable than the deeper ultramarine made from ground lapis lazuli, but Renaissance artists and patrons nonetheless coveted it and prompted a market for the blue derivative used in tempera and oil pigment. The blue powder pigment serves, too, as a form of sorcery: one that would ward off those who deal in injury of the already dispossessed.\u003cbr\u003e Turning his attention to the forced relocation of peoples, the COVID-19 death toll, the encroaching dangers of illiberal rule, the meanings of home and eviction, the power of cultural memory, as well as his artistic forebears, Tejada accounts for the uncounted and those excluded from belonging in voices that tell the cruel fortunes and joyful vitality of human and non-human life forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Desierto de Chihuahua\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hangman   3\u003cbr\u003e Macula   5\u003cbr\u003e Night Festival   7\u003cbr\u003e January Song   10\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. Orphan Hill, Presidio County\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lung Compliance   15\u003cbr\u003e Litany   17\u003cbr\u003e Remainder   19\u003cbr\u003e Ordinance   21\u003cbr\u003e Speaking Part   23\u003cbr\u003e Citizen   25\u003cbr\u003e Witness   26\u003cbr\u003e Grassland   28\u003cbr\u003e Vehicle   31\u003cbr\u003e Immune   33\u003cbr\u003e Residence   35\u003cbr\u003e Grayscale   36\u003cbr\u003e In Person   38\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. Milestone Obelisk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Carbonate of Copper   43\u003cbr\u003e Impasse   45\u003cbr\u003e Anyway   47\u003cbr\u003e Oxygen   50\u003cbr\u003e Palisade   52\u003cbr\u003e September   54\u003cbr\u003e Congregation   56\u003cbr\u003e Chanting   58\u003cbr\u003e Throne   60\u003cbr\u003e February Sketchbook   63\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. Sign for Bridge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fable   67\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. Bicentennial Boulevard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Field Guide   85\u003cbr\u003e Pathway   88\u003cbr\u003e Swerve   90\u003cbr\u003e Time to Wake Michael   92\u003cbr\u003e Time Insufficient   95\u003cbr\u003e Wind   97\u003cbr\u003e Messenger   99\u003cbr\u003e Warning   100\u003cbr\u003e Tunnel   102\u003cbr\u003e Touchstone   105\u003cbr\u003e Season   108\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6. Puente Brownsville–Matamoros\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cover   113\u003cbr\u003e Room   115\u003cbr\u003e Facsimile   117\u003cbr\u003e Thread Time   119\u003cbr\u003e Embargo   120\u003cbr\u003e Entrance   122\u003cbr\u003e Legion   126\u003cbr\u003e Oblation   128\u003cbr\u003e Particle   131\u003cbr\u003e Renegade   134\u003cbr\u003e Scorpion   136\u003cbr\u003e Birthright   138\u003cbr\u003e Song   139\u003cbr\u003e The Color   141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/i\u003e   143\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePostscript \u003c\/i\u003e  145\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  147\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  149\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52740237328664,"sku":"9781531509705","price":13.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/carbonate-of-copper-paperback-softback-9781531509705","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}