{"product_id":"southernmost-sonnets","title":"Southernmost: Sonnets","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Vivid ... A memoir of queer love, loss and migration ... dazzling' Karen McCarthy Woolf, author of Top Doll\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It all happened a long time ago, no one now remembers this story\u003cbr\u003elet me tell you how it all happened, how we turned unholy.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Southernmost, Leo Boix takes us on a spellbinding voyage through time and imagination, from the Argentina of his birth - 'the end of the world, the antipode' - to a new life in England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnearthing an old grief, the poet embarks on a glittering, encyclopaedic exploration of his own past and the Latin America he left behind: a continent haunted by the Europeans who once fixed their telescopes on its shores.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouthernmost reveals truths hidden in plain sight: colonialism's violent legacies; dissidents disappeared by the junta; a young mother's mysterious decline; the clarifying sexuality of a boy whose father can't bear to acknowledge it. At the same time, it tells a story - as sonnets have often done - about love, through Boix's intimate and original evocation of gay marriage. Restlessly intelligent, intoxicated by Latin America's landscapes and rich folklore, this virtuosic net of sonnets offers a glimpse of our world's interconnecting threads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In this thrilling collection of sonnets, Leo Boix maps a personal geography out of dynamic encounters between the Old World and the New' Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'As sinuous and expansive as the ocean between us' Urayoán Noel, author of Transversal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58023849492811,"sku":"9781784745851","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781784745851.jpg?v=1785765763","url":"https:\/\/paperwing.co.uk\/products\/southernmost-sonnets","provider":"Paperwing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}