The poems in Against the Current expose a mind moving fast as water.
Tedi López Mills renders a river as a cool but contaminated space,
propelling its detritus through a hybrid rural/urban zone that is
inhabited by allegory and rife with collision. As the poems swim
upstream, they accrue the impurities and complicities of memory,
embodied in the central figure of the brother who is also the other.
Wendy Burk reproduces the baroque, occasionally frenetic rhythms of the
abecedarian original with lucidity, in these poems that underscore that
Mexico is defined by physical and philosophical contrast.