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Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

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The Life Assignment

The Life Assignment is, in its own startling terms, an ecology of late capitalist grief. . . . This outstanding first book, merciless in its beauty and wit, is a ‘schema for our lapsed world,’ a way to make sense of our ‘somber city’ and ‘the grief / we happen to be around.’—Urayoán Noel

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  • AMERICA! AMERICA! | LAS DOS AMÉRICAS

    In interiors by night-light and by our own / / admission, we levitate—
  • I GIVE YOU MY HEART | OS DOY MI CORAZÓN

    I find myself on my feet with fifteen leaves.   / / Everything carries its own light on the walls. 
  • I, RICARDO, DETACHED FROM THE HUMAN RICARDO | YO, RICARDO, SEPARANDOME DEL HUMANO RICARDO

    In youth, they left by onion / / roots to draft me          an inner life
  • LAST ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE LIFE ASSIGNMENT | ÚLTIMO ANUNCIO DE LA VIDA ASIGNADA

              Here, in December, snow tends its oxidized tint over my shoes, tracing porous / /           bones under a caravan of leaves. Sebastian, at seven, the light dim over oatmeal
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