Heredities

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.

שנה

2010

שפה

English

הוצאה

Louisiana State University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

77

ISBN

9780807136430

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