Skin tax / Tim Z. Hernandez ; foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernandez, Tim Z.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young men--Poetry.

Young men.

Masculinity--Poetry.

Masculinity.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 67 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, [2004]

Summary:

The author's poetry is immersed in themes of love, desire, male sexuality, violence, and machismo. It mixes the sharp, taut sounds of a performance poet with a lyricism grounded in the realities of California's Great Central Valley.

Contents:

Mama's boy

I've worn that feminine skin

We've been afraid

How unusual it would be

I'd be a lying man

Z is the shape

I rub my hands

Your skin

I arrive late

It started

The guitar

The cajon's face

The living room

I heard my father

I pissed on Little Ricky

Elegy for C-Dog

Lonely's long bronze legs

Enter Madrugada

Perched on the face

Madness flows through

When the sky spills forth

I'm gonna put Virgil down

Mama speaks of it

When young Andres

If I could tell you.

Notes:

"Great Valley books."

American Book Awards, Winner, 2006

Other Format:

Online version: Hernandez, Tim Z. Skin tax.

ISBN:

1890771937

9781890771935

OCLC:

55962209