Roberto Tejada Books in Order

Written in Mexico City between 1988 and 1992, these poems explore intimacy within changing political and cultural conditions. A fifteen-part title sequence considers boundaries, historical experience, and the tensions between bodily vulnerability, surrender, and resistance.

Tejada surveys the career of Chicana artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz, examining her photographs, installations, artist's books, and public art. Family memory, border experience, language, and feminism connect her work to questions of cultural identity and community.

Tejada examines Mexican photography from the early twentieth century onward, tracing connections with the United States and their borderlands. Studies of major photographers and archives explore how images shape ideas about territory, sexuality, ethnicity, and national identity.

Poems and prose move through public spaces, artworks and histories linking the United States with Latin America. Experimental voices and imagined journeys explore how colonial legacies, political power and everyday encounters shape the stories people tell about themselves.

These poems examine desire, queer identity and belonging across the United States and Mexico. Personal experience meets public history as Tejada considers how sexuality, nationality and privilege affect intimacy and the possibilities of a shared life.

Essays and manifestos trace Latinx artistic expression across the Americas, from colonial accounts to contemporary poetry and visual art. Tejada examines borders, displacement and masculinity while considering how writers and artists challenge inherited structures of conquest.

Poems move between Los Angeles, Mexico City and the borderlands of the Americas, following migrants, tourists, settlers and exiles. Tejada explores how language, art and collective life confront displacement, racial power and the pressures of capitalism.

Poetry and documentary photographs examine migration and detention along the Texas border. Drawing connections between copper pigments, colonial extraction and contemporary displacement, Tejada considers the dignity of asylum seekers and the communities shaped by exclusion and collective memory.

Essays, lectures, and cultural criticism examine Latin American and U.S. Latinx art across national and disciplinary boundaries. Tejada connects close readings of artworks with memoir and political history, considering migration, colonial legacies, and the institutions that shape visibility.