Almost Patagonia: A Chapbook, by A. Robert Lee (2023)
In Almost Patagonia: A Chapbook, A. Robert Lee adds a postscript to his antic trilogy of Suspicious Circumstances: An Album of Events and Oddities with Thoughts on the Word What (2020), Outside In: Hinges and Swivels (2022) and Everywhere You Look (2023). Riffs in alternating prose and verse.
Sure, Patagonia is real geography. South America. Wide and deep land expanse. Washed by the Atlantic and Pacific. Lower Andes. Tierra del Fuego. Co-administered by Chile and Argentina. Desert sun yet archipelago lash of tempest. Within reach of the Antarctic. Whale and raptor. Guanaco and penguin. A place to touch and travel.
But what of borrowing Patagonia as metaphor for the world you inhabit? Yourself a kind of Gulliver. Trump politics. The wrap of commercials. Word salads. Remembered noises. Body parts like feet. Language, as it were, beyond English or Spanish. At times you might imagine yourself on a Science Fiction planet, geography like no other.
Bournbrook Press is pleased to provide a guide.
40 pages.
From The Bournbrook Press, ISBN 978-1-7395829-2-0.
