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Veering between past and present, between ecological destruction and human violence, What Comes Back is a search for what has vanished and what remains. 

Javier Peñalosa M.’s What Comes Back is a procession, a journey, a search for a body of water that has disappeared or gone elsewhere. Featured in separate sections, original Spanish poems and Robin Myers’ English translations highlight tender ruminations on loss, memory, and communion. Just as landscapes witness and “preserve what happens along the length of them,” so do people. We watch as travelers navigate realms between the living and the dead, past mountains and dried up rivers to map, trace, and remember the past and future. Several sections, each bearing the title “What Comes Back,” guide readers on a looping voyage where they are “or

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      Publisher: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/13/2024
      ISBN13: 9781556596841, 978-1556596841
      ISBN10: 1556596847

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      Book Synopsis
      Veering between past and present, between ecological destruction and human violence, What Comes Back is a search for what has vanished and what remains. 

      Javier Peñalosa M.’s What Comes Back is a procession, a journey, a search for a body of water that has disappeared or gone elsewhere. Featured in separate sections, original Spanish poems and Robin Myers’ English translations highlight tender ruminations on loss, memory, and communion. Just as landscapes witness and “preserve what happens along the length of them,” so do people. We watch as travelers navigate realms between the living and the dead, past mountains and dried up rivers to map, trace, and remember the past and future. Several sections, each bearing the title “What Comes Back,” guide readers on a looping voyage where they are “or

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