The Demand Calls for It:

On Street Vendors, Food, and the Critical Intimacy of Audrey Rodríguez

Orlando Ochoa, Jr.

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Ochoa, Jr., Orlando. “The Demand Calls for It: On Street Vendors, Food, and the Critical Intimacy of Audrey Rodríguez.” New York Folklore, vol. 49:1-2, 2023. pp. 17-19.

Summary

In her poem “Exodus and Consumption,” Audrey Rodríguez traces a mango’s movement away from its Tapachulan soil. The fruit is “sun-kissed and watered” for five years, “thrown into a basket by tiny hands / Taken for a hot bath” before being sent to the US/Mexico border for agricultural inspection. “Kill the invasive Mexican fruit flies / The demand calls for it.”
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