Algarabía: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya / La Canción de Cenex, Hijo Natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyya

A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award...
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Algarabía: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya / La Canción de Cenex, Hijo Natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyya by Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel

Algarabía: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya / La Canción de Cenex, Hijo Natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyya

$25.00

Algarabía: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya / La Canción de Cenex, Hijo Natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyya

$25.00
Author: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winner

Algarabía follows Cenex, a trans being who narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf. An inhabitant of a colony of Earth in a parallel universe, Cenex leads us through his years as an experimental subject, a stay in suburbia, and not-so-far-off lands as he struggles to find a name, a body, and a stable home. His song clashes variegated sources with work by cis writers on trans figures, referencing everything from Clueless to Taino cosmology within a single line.

Algarabía inscribes an origin narrative for trans people in the face of their erasure from colonial and anti-colonial literary canons, laughing at its own survival with sharp, unserious rage.

Una epopeya puertorriqueña trans que mezcla poesía y narrativa especulativa, por un ganador del Premio Lambda

Algarabía sigue a Cenex, un ser trans que narra su vida retrospectivamente mientras navega por las historias contadas en su nombre. Habitante de una colonia de la Tierra en un universo paralelo, Cenex nos conduce a través de sus años como sujeto experimental, una estancia suburbana, unas tierras no tan lejanas y su lucha por encontrar un cuerpo y un hogar estables. Su canto enfrenta textos de escritores cis sobre figuras trans con una variedad de fuentes, haciendo referencia a Clueless y a la cosmología taína dentro de un mismo verso.

Algarabía inscribe un mito fundacional para las personas trans frente a su exclusión de los cánones literarios coloniales y anticoloniales y se ríe de su propia supervivencia con una rabia pícara y aguda.

Author: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.95w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9781644453513


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2025

About the Author

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet and translator. The 2018 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, he has received a Premio Nuevas Voces, a Juan Felipe Herrera Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and the inaugural Ambroggio Prize.

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera es un poeta y traductor puertorriqueño. El Poeta Laureado de Filadelfia del 2018, ha recibido los premios Nuevas Voces, Juan Felipe Herrera, Lambda, y el premio Ambroggio inaugural.

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