Creve Coeur Lupe Gómez or The Interpreter of Desires

or The Interpreter of Desires

by writing memory upon the margin of history

When My Brother Was an Aztec is a work of courage and invention – one that foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of Western mythologies and a deeply rooted cultural history

language has weft and warp

‘Doe het toch maar’ als levenshouding

Creve Coeur Lupe Gómez or The Interpreter of DesiresRobert Fitterman Robert Fitterman's sixteenth and most ambitious book transposes William Carlos Williams's postwar long poem Paterson onto the segregated suburbs of late twentieth century St. Louis to track the collapse of the American urban landscape. Mirroring Paterson's structure page for page, Fitterman translates Williams's patchwork of local news stories, personal letters, and found historical documents into the landscapes and mythologies of his