Future Tourism

In Future Tourism, the self is an encounter with possibilities dwelling within lands and people, a catalogue of friendships, cuisines, and revelries. Part travelogue, part notebook for a coming distillation of memory, this poem ruptures the erasures of capitalism, challenges the force of line-breaks, and reckons with the embodied vocabulary of our senses. It shapes a new way of chronicling subjectivity whereby friends and places subsume each other. Pérez’s poem delivers the future in the present of travel.

Christopher Rey Pérez is a poet from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He is the author of gauguin's notebook (&Now Books, '17) and Fayuca (diSONARE Editorial, '23), as well as the editor of Aliens Beyond Paradise/Alienígenas más allá del paraíso (Wendy’s Subway, ‘19). With Gabriel Finotti, Christopher publishes the multilingual and nomadic bookwork, Dolce Stil Criollo.