Heredities: Poems
In his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence. The hand manipulates a surgical etymology through the spine: the longitude where ôhistory gathers in the name we never are.ö The poems seek to speak beyond codified aesthetics and dictated identity politics in order to recognize a territory of ôirreducible othernessö where the selfAÆs sinew may be ôreeved through revelationö and where, finally, one finds ôobscurity bonded to light.ö This stunning collection heralds the arrival of an important new voice in American poetry.
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Heredities: Poems
In his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence. The hand manipulates a surgical etymology through the spine: the longitude where ôhistory gathers in the name we never are.ö The poems seek to speak beyond codified aesthetics and dictated identity politics in order to recognize a territory of ôirreducible othernessö where the selfAÆs sinew may be ôreeved through revelationö and where, finally, one finds ôobscurity bonded to light.ö This stunning collection heralds the arrival of an important new voice in American poetry.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807137598 |
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| Publisher: | Louisiana State University Press |
| Publication date: | 05/01/2010 |
| Series: | Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 88 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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