Felipe Romero Beltrán – Bravo Literature and finding and maintaining queer

and finding and maintaining queer space

Upon opening the book

shot alone within the colossal grandeur of an unspoiled landscape that seems to know nothing of national borders and political rivalries

numbered and signed

How exhilarating and terrifying to be looked at

Felipe Romero Beltrán – Bravo Literature and finding and maintaining queerIdentity and geography intersect in Romero Beltrn's conceptual poetics of suspended time and human resilience on the US Mexico border. Bravo situates itself in the liminal space of the Rio Bravo, a site of perpetual tension and migration where identity and geography intersect. Focusing on a 270 kilometre stretch of the river, Romero Beltrans Bravo constructs an elusive visual narrative where the river itself becomes a silent protagonist, shaping the