{"product_id":"southernmost-sonnets-9781784745851","title":"Southernmost: Sonnets","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Vivid ... A memoir of queer love, loss and migration ... dazzling' Karen McCarthy Woolf, author of \u003ci\u003eTop Doll\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003ci\u003eIt all happened a long time ago, no one now remembers this story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003elet me tell you how it all happened, how we turned unholy.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSouthernmost\u003c\/i\u003e, Leo Boix takes us on a\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003espellbinding\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003evoyage through time and imagination, from the Argentina of his birth - 'the end of the world, the antipode' - to a new life in England.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthernmost\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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 \u003ci\u003eSea Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'As sinuous and expansive as the ocean between us' Urayoán Noel, author of \u003ci\u003eTransversal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chatto \u0026amp; Windus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784745851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Leo Boix","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51474201149621,"sku":"9781784745851","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0c5243ff-9063-451f-90c1-b3c4cd820b5e.jpg?v=1754405203","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/southernmost-sonnets-9781784745851","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}