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Ríos Are for Chivos and Eternity
In these poemas, Bonifacio ponders acts of cutting, washing, naming, cooking, and burying: rituals by which our bodies are disciplined, preserved, erased, or re/dismembered. The river is both a geographic archive and site (the Dajabón/Massacre River; the Caribbean; the Mediterranean; the Rio Grande), as well as a metaphor for writing about memory and trauma, the past and what’s to come. Finally, the goat materializes as food, sacrificio, rumor, machismo, dictator, and witness, binding intimacy to terror.
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