Heredities
J. Michael Martinez · 2010
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About the book
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 selfÆs sinew may be reeved through revelation and where, finally, one f.
Book details
- Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 77
- ISBN
- 9780807136430
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