Boxing the Compass

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. "This novella of compressed, accreting, hungry paragraphs is full of sparkling diction and pinching rhythms; mysteriously, it silhouettes its interlocking motifs. Geography, family sadness, facts about the Old and New Worlds come into play. A real pleasure of a book." -Stacey Levine "Sandy Florian's gorgeous meditation, BOXING THE COMPASS, begins with kinds of unfolding, a sort of anti-origami of intention and desire: like love letters or lovers' bodies, exposing and withholding simultaneously. Any reader who opens herself, himself to this book is risking a special kind of pleasure. But the presiding engagement is not pleasure itself, but experience of unfolding, which can also be violent an earthquake is a cosmic origami, and an accurate account of the mind awakening in this extraordinary book." --Bin Ramke

Sandy Florian is the author of five books and one chapbook: Boxing the Compass, On Wonderland & Waste, Prelude to Air From Water, The Tree of No, Telescope, and 32 Pedals & 47 Stops. Her most recent book, Boxing the Compass, launched the Akrilica series, a collaboration between Noemi Press and Letras Latinas which aims to complicate perceptions of contemporary Latino literature by publishing innovative writing that thwarts stereotypical expectations.