Ceballos captures the violent reality oppressed and exploited people face due to U.S. involvement in their home country’s economy and politics that force them to eventually leave. Through elegies, we’re made aware of the horrors they face after fleeing to the U.S.
“What are ways of looking deeply, at a photograph or other archival filament, that allow us in the present to re-enter the past?”
“Hong’s essays and poems ask how to write about a country’s murderous onset, when the bloody order continues?”—Paul Hlava Ceballos
to enjoy a banana
you need only the banana’s name
“Research is an intimate practice.”
what is normal
is what the body can bear, repeated
until it becomes emergency
by Paul Hlava Ceballos | Contributing Writer
On the occasion of Hugo House’s Poets & Artists for Migrant Justice: Benefit Reading
