What's More American Than Erasure? – Repeating Islands

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Alyssa Oursler (Electric Literature) writes that Robert Lopez’s book Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere explores the loss of his family’s culture and language. Here are excerpts from her interview with Lopez. A century ago, Robert Lopez’s grandfather Sixto left Puerto Rico for Brooklyn. Puerto…

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