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Cada día más cerca del fin del mundo

By Anthony Cody
This is a visual poem. Text in different boxes (and some outside of boxes) is connected by arrows. An abstract image of a logging machine haunts the right side.

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Source: Poetry (July/August 2022)
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Cada día más cerca del fin del mundo

By Anthony Cody
About this Poet

Anthony Cody is from Fresno, California, with lineage in the Bracero Program and Dust Bowl. His debut, Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), won a 2021 American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. He is the recipient of a...

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