{"product_id":"the-book-of-explanations-paperback","title":"The Book of Explanations - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTedi López Mills\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom one of Mexico's premier poets, the award-winning Tedi López Mills, a hybrid, genre-defying book of essays following the unusual and surprising complexities of everyday life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough thirteen essays, Tedi López Mills explores the minutiae that at first glance go unnoticed. In \"Improper Nouns,\" she explores the history and destiny of an uncomfortable name, asking whether the way we name what surrounds us affects the fabric of its essence. In \"How Time Passes, In Consciousness and Outside,\" one's individual experience of time splits from how it passes outside us. The following essays allude to conscience, pain, private histories, dreams, wisdom, and the most difficult of memories that build one's own identity. Throughout, López Mills traces the trail of her own history, journeying into her own conscience and the mysteries of existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTedi López Mills is one of Mexico's foremost poets writing today. Born in Mexico City in 1959, she studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and literature at the Sorbonne. She is the author of ten books of and two essay collections, several of which have received national literary prizes. An English edition of \u003cem\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/em\u003e, in translation by Wendy Burke, was published by Phoneme Media in 2016. López Mills sets the pace for her contemporaries with work that is linguistically inventive and philosophically rigorous. She invokes the classics, the troubadours, and the pastoral tradition with an underlying skepticism about language, landscape, and causality that keeps her work current, engaging the eye while troubling the \"I.\" She lives in Mexico City, Mexico. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobin Myers is a Mexico City-based translator and poet. Book-length translations include \u003cem\u003eAnother Life\u003c\/em\u003e by Daniel Lipara (Eulalia Books, Fall 2021), \u003cem\u003eThe Restless Dead\u003c\/em\u003e by Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press, 2020), \u003cem\u003eCars on Fire\u003c\/em\u003e by Mónica Ramón Ríos (Open Letter, 2020), \u003cem\u003eAnimals at the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Texas Press, 2020), and \u003cem\u003eLyric Poetry Is Dead\u003c\/em\u003e by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Cardboard House Press, 2018). Other work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eKenyon Review, The Common, the Harvard Review, Two Lines, Waxwing, World Literature Today, Asymptote\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, among other publications. She was among the winners of the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest (\u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e \/ Academy of American Poets) and is an alumna of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.87 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767216963872,"sku":"9781646051250","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/24c739294e31f0c03704a30c33e1ec0b.webp?v=1780306856","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-book-of-explanations-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}