This American autopsy : poems / José Antonio Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez, José Antonio, 1974- author.

Series:

Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas ; v. 23.

Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas series ; volume 23

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 63 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]

Contents:

Before stories, or first memory

McAllen, Texas

La migra

Lucky

Poem in honor of the one-year anniversary of my sister Aleida's death, which is five days away

Hammers and bricks

Faggot

Challenger

El Cine Rey : la ilegal

Kilroy

Fear is a hurricane

Holes in skulls

American dream, or visiting my sister's fancy home

From this parade float

This fourth of July

The fired gun

For Tamir Rice, whom I never met

Terrible things

Plutonian nights

Albright Knox Museum gift shop

Still life with view from the window at La gras and gone with the wind hair-color test at Harry Ransom Center

American abundance, or first trip to H-E-B grocery store

Covet

Cuando me Besan

Liebre en el ejido

Double glass doors

What we can all do to save my third-world country

Drug mule

Drug runner, or random South Texas town

Knock

Owl

At the edge of Omaha

Hanging in the FBI office lounge

Reynosa

To the 16-year old shot by the border patrol agent

Self-portrait with disco ball and dust devil

Translating an autopsy, or to the man autopsied into 99 pages

What PBS has taught me

Brilliance

The hollow

Ferguson, MO

First haiku

Antarctica

Unnamed in McAllen, Texas.

ISBN:

9780806163963

0806163968

OCLC:

1080248327