Anthony Cody - August 11, 2022

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Anthony Cody

Anthony Cody reads from his collection Borderland Apocrypha (2020), which comprises of visual, research-based poems centered on citizenship, the history of racial violence against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the American West, and ecopoetics. Cody also shares an original video piece paired with an uncollected poem, as well as a translation of a Juan Felipe Herrera poem that invites audience participation. This reading was originally given alongside Mai Der Vang

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Welcome
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by Diana Marie Delgado

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Introduction
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by Gabe Dozal

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"Standing in line to take a passport photo, an old white man looks at me and claims I am running"
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Cody, Anthony. Borderland Apocrypha. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing, 2020. 

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"A passport photo asks me to 2x2 myself and capture what I am in neutral and I recall I have yet to see the chamber of my heart turn tusk" and "Looks at me how Teddy Roosevelt died coveting a white buffalo"
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Cody, Anthony. Borderland Apocrypha. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing, 2020. 

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"La Sirena, a Mexican Lynching, after the hanging death of Josefa Segovia, Downieville, CA, July 5, 1851"
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Cody, Anthony. Borderland Apocrypha. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing, 2020. 

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"La Corona, a Mexican Lynching, No. 47"
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Cody, Anthony. Borderland Apocrypha. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing, 2020. 

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"The Axolotl Speaks"
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Cody, Anthony. Borderland Apocrypha. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing, 2020. 

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"A Neoapocalyptices in the Deep Adaptation" and "A Neoapocalyptices"
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Uncollected.

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"Earth Song"
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Read and translated by Anthony Cody. Differs slightly from published version.

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Herrera, Juan Felipe. Akrilica. 1989. Edited and translated by Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, and Anthony Cody. Noemi Press, 2022.

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"Borderland Apocrypha"
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Cody, Anthony. Borderland Apocrypha. Oakland: Omnidawn Publishing, 2020. 

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Anthony Cody
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Paola Valenzuela
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Mai Der Vang and Anthony Cody
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Paola Valenzuela
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