{"product_id":"revereza-miko-nowhere-nepb","title":"Revereza, Miko: Nowhere Near","description":"\u003cp\u003eWendy's Subway, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 30, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Nowhere Near follows the author's psychogeographic journey from Los Angeles to Pangasinan to Mexico City after his departure from the United States, where he lived undocumented for twenty-six years. Returning to the Philippines with his grandmother to search for lost land and to confront a \"family curse,\" Revereza surfaces legacies of Spanish colonialism and US imperialism as they bear out in its continued present. Through film stills, photographs, family archives, and a rapt, first-person narrative, Nowhere Near excavates the amnesias and silences that shape personal and historical memory in the exilic, diasporic impasse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his powerful and entrancing voice, fueled by irony and critique, Miko Revereza explores neoliberal capitalism, the challenges facing undocumented families, the non-existent “American dream,” and internal and external exile, showing how borders of all kinds (geographical, racial, psychic), though regularly traversed, are policed and criminalized.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNowhere Near\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a cri de coeur about twenty-first-century American society. —John Keene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiko Revereza’s captivating book is a companion to his diaristic 2023 feature of the same title, and it is a pleasure to encounter on the page the resonant literary voice he developed while making that film. Befitting its rich entwining of personal and political histories,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNowhere Near\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econtains a wondrous range of modes and moods: raw and revealing one moment, sharply and humorously observant the next, by turns poetic and plainspoken. —Dennis Lim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNowhere Near\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a document of lives lived undocumented. Here, form matters: text branches out from image, while dialogue counterpoints an easy, self-reflexive poetic. With the acuity necessitated by a status requiring constant vigilance, negotiating the privatized avenues of America’s dream, Revereza’s words carry a weight that belies their simplicity. Here and now, our attention matters, as America’s icy grip chills us all. —Alia Syed\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44609836777495,"sku":"9798990987890","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1770925171-900.jpg?v=1771624515","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/revereza-miko-nowhere-nepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}