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Southwest Reconstruction is Raquel Gutiérrez's debut poetry collection, a disquieting journey through the uncharted dreamspace of memory and loss, expulsion and shelter, family and recognition. Enacting an eclectic range of forms and echoes drawn from the relational complexities that occupy the difficult terrains of unceded land; these are critical improvisations of creation and closures of the imperceptible sense of displacement, and the interconnecting routes that map the vastness of desire to belong. Divided into three sections, the vocal registers in Southwest Reconstruction act as the noisy divining rod for both kinship and ancestral communication; a sonic brown butch vernacular strumming notes out of sorrow and mettle. Written over the course of almost ten years in the Southern Arizona landscape, these poems function as a psychic Thomas Guide diving into the wreck of settler logics looming large in the rearview mirror of mestizaje and the mythological ruptures left in their wake.

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Raquel Gutiérrez is a poet, essayist, critic, performer and the author of Brown Neon: Essays (Coffee House Press). Gutiérrez's work has been recently supported by the United States Artist Fellowship and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship. Gutiérrez has lived on unceded lands of the Tohono O'odham and Pascua Yaqui people since 2016.

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