Cover art for Tristessa
Published
Penguin, July 2025
ISBN
9780241752067
Format
Softcover, 112 pages
Dimensions
18cm × 11cm × 0.7cm

Tristessa

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Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg- 'a narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuahua dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums'.

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