Machete : poems / Tomás Q. Morín.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morín, Tomás Q., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 76 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Summary:

"This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts. "Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca" ("God squeezes, but He doesn't strangle")--the epigraph of Machete--sets the stage for a powerful poet who summons a variety of ways to endure life when there's an invisible hand at your throat. Tomás Morín hails from the coastal plains of Texas, and explores a world where identity and place shift like that ever-changing shore. In these poems, culture crashes like waves and leaves behind Billie Holiday and the CIA, disco balls and Dante, the Bible and Jerry Maguire. They are long, lean and dazzle in their telling: "Whiteface" is a list of instructions for people stopped by the police; "Duct Tape" lauds our domestic life from the point of view of the tape itself. One part Groucho Marx, one part Job, Morín considers our obsession with suffering--"the pain in which we trust"--and finds that the best answer to our predicament is sometimes anger, sometimes laughter, but always via the keen line between them that may be the sharpest weapon we have"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Sing the Body Aquatic

112th Congress Blues

Whiteface

Weather Sayings

Machete

Extraordinary Rendition

Flea Circus

A Sigh

New Year's Eve

Sartana and Machete in Outer Space

Stanza

Life Preserver

II. Vallejo

Two Dolphins

Royal Silence

Goosestep

A Pile of Fish

Heretic That I Am

Tried and Untrue

Duct Tape

Miles Davis Stole My Soul

Machetes.

Other Format:

Online version: Morín, Tomás Q. Machete.

ISBN:

9780593319642

0593319648

OCLC:

1228911071