Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

From award-winning poet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal comes a brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared b…

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