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🦋 Un rudo manuscrito

Carmen Boullosa's Libro de Eva has some introductory materials at the front. It is presented as the transcription of a "rough manuscript", but there is no enclosing story to tell us where it was found or how we come to be reading it. There is however an introduction listing the contents; a brief letter with no attribution, bidding the reader to pass these papers along after reading them -- "Do not retain them, at the risk of your destruction" -- an unattributed note found among Eve's papers exhorting us not to allow Eve's voice to be lost to oblivion; and a prologue attributed to St. Teresa of Ávila. St. Teresa finds the document to be meaningless, putrid blasphemy; her advice is to ignore it.

The book has three epigraphs -- a few lines from Joy Harjo's Perhaps the World Ends Here; from Byron's Cain; and from Eduardo Lizalde's Each Poem is its own Rough Draft (which I am in love with, and meaning to read more of his work).

posted afternoon of Saturday, November 28th, 2020
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