{"product_id":"9781632432124","title":"en el norte \/ soy del sur","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry that considers migration and identity through formal experimentation with sonnets.    � Jos� Felipe Alvergue's en el norte\/soy del sur, which translates to \"in the north I am of the south,\" is an exploration into the limits of the American sonnet, one that seeks to establish a stable sense of place, while opening vistas at each turn. Stitching together multiple sonnets into what he calls \"sonnet essays,\" Alvergue rides their turns-or \"voltas\"-that are guided by memories and photographs of his family's migratory history between El Salvador and the United States.    � The resulting text is a story of human geography that considers the coordinates of a long, continuous thought about what it means to be \"of a place\" as a defining characteristic of identity, when one is also \"in a place\" that sets strict limits on the political and historical potential of im\/migrants. A deeply human documentary work that delves into one family's migration across the hemisphere, en el norte\/soy del sur hopes to give shape to the collective and often amorphous history of migration in the face of narratives that peddle spectacularized distillation and essentialism.    �\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookmonger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":59749555306830,"sku":"9781632432124","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thebookmongerbearsden.co.uk\/products\/9781632432124","provider":"The Bookmonger","version":"1.0","type":"link"}