{"product_id":"southernmost-sonnets-by-leo-boix-9781784745851","title":"Southernmost: Sonnets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA family sets out on a journey across South America, thereby setting in motion a glittering, encyclopaedic evocation of the continent, and a reckoning with its past both personal and political.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVivid ... A memoir of queer love, loss and migration ... dazzling\u003c\/em\u003e - Karen McCarthy Woolf, author of \u003cem\u003eTop Doll\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt all happened a long time ago, no one now remembers this story let me tell you how it all happened, how we turned unholy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSouthernmost\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSouthernmost\u003c\/em\u003e 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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this thrilling collection of sonnets, Leo Boix maps a personal geography out of dynamic encounters between the Old World and the New\u003c\/em\u003e - Chloe Aridjis, author of \u003cem\u003eSea Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs sinuous and expansive as the ocean between us\u003c\/em\u003e - Urayoan Noel, author of \u003cem\u003eTransversal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082583949548,"sku":"9781784745851","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d90c4c5419aa455b48fba05f977a38a4.jpg?v=1765311932","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/southernmost-sonnets-by-leo-boix-9781784745851","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}