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Published
April 2024
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A wise, visionary debut on ecological and human resistance, perfect for fans of Amanda Gorman and Greta Thunberg, and the earth-body artwork of Ana Mendieta
The Brush is an incantatory, fearless exploration of collective trauma - and its horrific relevance in today's Colombia, where mass killings continue. Told from the voices Pablo, Ester, and the Brush itself, Hernández-Pachón's poem is an astounding response to a traumatic event in recent Colombian history: the massacre in the village of El Salado between February 16 and 21, 2000. Paramilitary forces tortured and killed sixty people, interspersing their devastating violence with music in the town square. Pablo Rodríguez steps thirteen paces out into the night and buries a wooden box. Its contents: a chain, a medallion, a few overexposed photographs, and finally, a deed. He burrows into the ground without knowing quite why, but with the certainty of a heavy change pressing through the air, of fear settling "like a cat in his throat." Meanwhile, his wife Ester - a sharpshooter and keeper of all village secrets - slips into her fifth dream of the night. As Ester tosses and Pablo pats his fresh mound of earth, another character emerges in Eliana Hernández-Pachón's vivid and prophetic triptych. The Brush is a tangled grove, a thicket of vines, an orchid pummeled with rain. It is also an extraordinary depiction of ecological resistance, of the natural world that both endures human cruelty and lives on in spite of it.
Authors
Hern +1
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Published
April 2024
Weight
91g
Dimensions
138 x 163 x 13 mm
ISBN
9781953861863
ISBN-10
1953861865
Eden Code
6252979
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ISBN: 9781953861863
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Release Date: April 2024
Weight: 91g
Dimensions: 138 x 163 x 13 mm
Eden Code: 6252979