Hernandez Diaz Jose Hernandez Diaz

Bad Mexican, Bad American (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community.In Bad Mexican, Bad American, the minimalist, working-class aesthetic of a disadvantaged Brown kid takes wing in prose poems that recall and celebrate that form s ties to Surrealism. With influences like Alberto Rios and Ray Gonzalez on one hand, and James Tate and Charles Baudelaire on the other, the collection spectacularly combines high art and folk art in a way that collapses those distinctions, as in the poem My Date with Frida Kahlo : Frida and I had Cuban coffee and then vegetarian tacos. We sipped on mescal and black tea. At the end of the night, following an awkward silence during a conversation on Cubism, we kissed for about thirty minutes beneath a protest mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros. Bad Mexican, Bad American demonstrates how having roots in more than one culture can be both unsettling and rich: van Gogh and Beethoven share the page with tattoos, graffiti, and rancheras; Quetzalcoatl shows up at Panda Express; a Mexican American child who has never had a Mexican American teacher may become that teacher; a parent s broken English is beautiful and masterful. Blending reality with dream and humility with hope, Hernandez Diaz contributes a singing strand to the complex cultural weave that is twenty-first-century poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Acre Books
• Seitenzahl: 82
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781946724748
• Artikelnr.: 72477846

Autorenporträt

Jose Hernandez Diaz is the author of The Fire Eater and the forthcoming book The Parachutist. A 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow, he has published work in American Poetry Review, Border Crossing, Cincinnati Review, Circulo de Poesia, the Hooghly Review, Huizache, Iowa Review, the London Magazine, Missouri Review, the Moth, the Nation, Poetry, Poetry Wales, the Progressive, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Witness, Yale Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He teaches generative workshops for Hugo House, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, The Writer's Center, and elsewhere. He serves as a poetry mentor in the Adroit Journal's Summer Mentorship Program. He lives in Norwalk, California.