The author spent five years living and working in Mexico City and this fact can be clearly perceived in the bulk of this poetry book: Aztec references, commentaries about the border between Mexico and the United States and mentions to the economic differences that set two worlds apart, for example. Later, the “motion” of the title guides the reader, as emigration, to many places, such as Kinshasa or Kanpur, and to many other cities inside the United States, such as Miami, Tulsa, Chicago or Boston, with roads as a common imagen in many of the poems. I loved that this volume –as, for example, “The Market Wonders” (Ahsahta Press, 2016)– provides many figures: miles, dollars, statistics, which give the reader an overwhelming sense of reality. “Pioneers in the Study of Motion” was published in 2007 by Ahsahta Press (Boise State University – Boise, Idaho).
