
Sharks in the Rivers
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family''s roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion and it is also full of risk.
In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it ''keep[s] opening befo...
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family''s roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion and it is also full of risk.
In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it ''keep[s] opening befo...