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 throug...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martinez, J. Michael, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
English.
American poetry.
POETRY / General.
Poesie americaine.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 history gathers in the name we never are. The poems seek to speak beyond codified aesthetics and dictated identity politics in order to recognize a territory of irreducible otherness where the selfAEs sinew may be reeved through revelation and where, finally, one f.
Physical Description:1 online resource (88 pages).
Awards:Walt Whitman Award, 2009.
ISBN:9780807137598

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