Hi-Density Politics

Author: Urayoán Noel Publisher: BlazeVOX (2011) "In Hi-Density Politics, Urayoán Noel celebrates the 'composite of elsewheres' that make us whole. Allowing the shift of language its living immersion through the electric barrio, this book tunes into the many frequencies that 're-site the body' as observed by the 'mock-spañol' sapien, the layered strata rife with invention. Let's move, these pages say, let's breathe the city through our body. With episodic density, Noel whirls us through an extravagant journey, proposing a newly charged coda for closeness." –Edwin Torres "Urayoán Noel’s plurilingual, polyphonic, & polymorphous text works are images are performance scores are records of poetry actions are homophonic translations are poems are homages to some of Latin America and the Caribbean’s greatest innovators. Their language is a haunted one. Throughout Noel’s body of work the ghost of Spanish unsettles the English language, disrupting its expansionist ambitions. Ditto for the sp