Carbonate of Copper

by Roberto Tejada

Bringing together lyric poetry, documentary photographs, and lives lived along the U.S.-Mexico borderland

Written during extended periods in Brownsville, McAllen, and Marfa, Texas, in Carbonate of Copper Roberto Tejada gives voice to unsettled stories from the past, as well as to present-day experiences of custody and displacement. The poems stage scenes adjacent to the U.S.-Mexico border and to the realities of migration warped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531509703
• ISBN13: 9781531509705
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 144 Pages