{"product_id":"southernmost-sonnets-paperback-2","title":"Southernmost: Sonnets - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeo Boix\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Vivid ... A memoir of queer love, loss and migration ... dazzling' Karen McCarthy Woolf, author of \u003ci\u003eTop Doll\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003ci\u003eIt all happened a long time ago, no one now remembers this story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003elet me tell you how it all happened, how we turned unholy.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSouthernmost\u003c\/i\u003e, Leo Boix takes us on a\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003espellbinding\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003evoyage through time and imagination, from the Argentina of his birth - 'the end of the world, the antipode' - to a new life in England.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnearthing an old grief, the poet embarks on a glittering, encyclopaedic exploration of his own past and the Latin America he left behind: a continent haunted by the Europeans who once fixed their telescopes on its shores. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthernmost\u003c\/i\u003e reveals truths hidden in plain sight: colonialism's violent legacies; dissidents disappeared by the junta; a young mother's mysterious decline; the clarifying sexuality of a boy whose father can't bear to acknowledge it. At the same time, it tells a story - as sonnets have often done - about love, through Boix's intimate and original evocation of gay marriage. Restlessly intelligent, intoxicated by Latin America's landscapes and rich folklore, this virtuosic net of sonnets offers a glimpse of our world's interconnecting threads. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In this thrilling collection of sonnets, Leo Boix maps a personal geography out of dynamic encounters between the Old World and the New' Chloe Aridjis, author of \u003ci\u003eSea Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'As sinuous and expansive as the ocean between us' Urayoán Noel, author of \u003ci\u003eTransversal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeo Boix\u003c\/b\u003e is a Latinx bilingual poet, translator and educator born in Argentina who lives in the UK. His first collection, \u003ci\u003eBallad of a Happy Immigrant\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. Boix is the co-director of Un Nuevo Sol, a national scheme to nurture new Latinx writers in the UK. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eHemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2025). He was the recipient of the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize 2018, the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019 and a PEN Award in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 29, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353876021497,"sku":"9781784745851","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/E15S5brChj9781784745851_01b38058-ce7d-4868-89f8-b753ff11d43e.webp?v=1769828711","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/southernmost-sonnets-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}