Architectures of FuturoPasados

In Architectures of FuturoPasados, histories jostle futures in literary works of great power. The extraordinary works collected by poet Anthony Cody offer forceful perceptions of Latinx identity from across the Americas and the Caribbean. They attest to the vigor of literary imagination beyond and between borders and languages. Cody has collected here poems, essays, art, and short fiction sounding distinctive themes of remembrance and forecasting. The literary voices he convenes in these pages are lyrical and assertive, experimental and rigorous, iconoclastic and reverential-the moods and expressive forms found in Architectures of FuturoPasados speak loudly and eloquently to the dynamism of a region equally on the move and firmly in place. The variety is in itself a lesson in literary imagination beyond nations and nation-ness.

With this collection, Manoa, always an American journal, joins in the reimagination of our América for a collective future through new as well as well-established voices.