I have a particular interest in contemporary work by artists who are grappling with climate change in the ways that a poem does—less didactically, less directly, and more by association.
Téllez shows that in creating the community of Maclovio Rojas, residents have challenged prescriptive notions of nation and belonging.
The collected works display a rich variety of and creativity in themes: home and history; contemporary concerns about identity, historical trauma, and loss of language; and economic and environmental inequalities.