Lost Children Archive

by Valeria Luiselli

COPULA & COPULATION

ALLEGORY

POINT OF VIEW

SYNTAX

RHYTHM & METER

CLIMAX

SIMILES

REVERBERATIONS

INVENTORY

HOMO FABER

HOMO FICTIO

EXEGESIS

FUTURE PRESENT

TROPES

NOUNS

MISSING

SPEED

VIGIL

ERASED

FALLINGS

ITEMS

DICKS, WHISKEY

GUNS & POETRY

I suppose that the convenient narrative has always been to portray the nations that are systematically abused by more powerful nations as a no-man’s-land, as a barbaric periphery whose chaos and brownness threaten civilized white peace. Only such a narrative can justify decades of dirty war, interventionist policies, and the overall delusion of moral and cultural superiority of the world’s economic and military powers.

ARCHIVE

WESTERNS

PRISONERS

The boy is in charge, he knows, of reading site-specific information. He stands in front of it and reads aloud, his prosody well attuned to the necrological hypocrisy of the plaque.

ELEGIES

HORSES

ECHOES & GHOSTS

ARCHIVE

(THE FIRST ELEGY)

ARCHIVE

(THE SECOND ELEGY)

HOLES

ERASED

STORMS

PRIVATE LANGUAGES

teddy bear cholla,

ALIENS

GAMES

GRAVITY

SHADOW LINE

(THE THIRD ELEGY)

HERE

(THE FOURTH ELEGY)

TOGETHER ALONE

BEDS

TRIANGLES