Under the World by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera - 9781739393977

The 87 Press

Under the WorldNight of the World 2\nAuthor(s): Oscar Guardiola-Rivera\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The 87 Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: The 87 Press\nISBN-13: 9781739393977, 978-1739393977\nSynopsis\nThis is 'a roots rave manifesto / to free literature'. The second installment in Oscar Guardiola-Rivera's Night of the World trilogy, Out of the World continues Hoodoo Girl's adventures, alongside the trickster Ix. This mythopoetic narrativetold in three episodesis inspired by the Mayan epic Popol Vuh, where plot is overrated' and musicality abounds. Lay your ear to the ground and follow these unearthly threads, the syncopated beats where the colonial encounter animates the Angel of History to reveal the masquerade that surrounds us all. In this second installment of Night of the World, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera elaborates in kaleidoscopic poetic form his ongoing, multi-scalar inquiry of how the open veins of the Americas are a burrow or cave from which emerge so many critical monsters