Operación al Cuerpo Enfermo / Operation on a Malignant Body

If any book has the ability to help us see beauty in a body abundant in transformations--from youthful health and vivacity seared with love and desire to the slow intensification of decay and disorientation--as well as read and understand these changes through multiple linguistic iterations Operation on a Malignant Body is it. Will Stocktons renderings of Sergio Loos destabilizing poetry into English are just as challenging as the original Spanish: they diagnose prejudices about sexuality illness relationships and belief systems to name only a few; they are risky in their resistance of melodrama pity and simplifications; and they are sonically beautiful. This collection is resuscitating prescribing an approach to how we can comprehend the body riddled with illnesses both psychological and physical how we can fathom the reality of illness as a succession of language because Metastasis is synonymous with fear. And it spreads just as a body can reveal itself through tests analysis x-rays. Not the power of the doctors. The body across this book is a contradiction between what is seen and from where: Loo reminds us that reality is the succession of language and that those who care for us may know how our bodies function but they do not know what it wants. - Curtis Bauer author of The Real Cause for Your Absence translator of Jeannette L. Clarionds Leve Sangre. This dual-language collection of prose poems and diagrams leverages the late prolific queer Mexican poet Sergio Loos diagnosis with cancer (an Ewings Sarcoma in the left leg) to explore anatomical linguistic and social relationships between queerness and disability. With an introduction from Loos friend Mexican writer Jonathan Minila.