Museum of the Americas Contributor(s): Martinez, J. Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143133446 ISBN-13: 9780143133445 Publisher: Penguin Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2018 Click for more in this series: National Poetry |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2018015372 |
Series: National Poetry |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" L (0.40 lbs) 112 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Booklist 10/01/2018 pg. 11 Publishers Weekly 10/01/2018 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how knowledge of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable. |
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