Citizen illegal : poems / José Olivarez.
Citizen illegal : poems Jos�e Olivarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olivarez, José, author.

Series:

BreakBeat poets series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Poetry.

Mexican Americans.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

69 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2018.

Summary:

"In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the story, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, and gentrifying barrios. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between."-- Provided by publisher.

"In this stunning debut, poet Jos�e Olivarez explores the story, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, and gentrifying barrios. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

(Citizen) (illegal)

My parents fold like luggage

Mexican Heaven

River Oaks mall

My therapist says make friends with your monsters

Boy & the belt

The voice in my head speaks English now

Rumors

Ode to cheese fries

I wake in a field of wolves with the moon

Note: rose that grows from concrete

Ode to Cal City basement parties

Not-love is a season

On my mom's 50th birthday

Hecky naw

Ode to Scottie Pippen

The day my little brother gets accepted into grad school

I tried to be a good Mexican son

I walk into every room & yell where the Mexicans at

Mexican American obituary

White folks is crazy

I ask Jesus how I got so white

Poem in which I become Wolverine

When the bill collector calls & I do not have the heart to answer

Mexican American disambiguation

You get fat when you're in love

Interview

My family never finished migrating we just stopped

If anything is missing, then it's nothing big enough to remember

Sleep apnea

Note: vaporub

Summer love

Poem to take the belt out of my dad's hands

My mom texts me for the millionth time

I loved the world so I married it

Love poem feat. Kanye West

Getting ready to say I love you to my dad, it rains

River Oaks mall (reprise)

Gentefication

Guapo.

ISBN:

9781608469543

1608469549

1608465233

9781608465231

OCLC:

1022782730