Bad Mexican, Bad American
Acre Books (Verlag)
978-1-946724-73-1 (ISBN)
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 Ríos 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.
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.
I
Ballad of the West Coast Mexican American/Chicanx 00
Doña Ofelia 00
Familia 00
Ode to the Overlooked Minimalist Painting in the Gallery 00
Roots That Cracked the Pavement 00
My Father Never Ate until Everyone Had Eaten 00
Broken 00
My Mother’s “Broken” English 00
The Pocha with the Adelita Tattoo 00
El Chacal 00
Folk Song 00
Bildungsroman of a Disadvantaged Brown Kid 00
I Never Had a Mexican American Teacher Growing Up 00
La Paleta 00
My Name 00
The Skeleton and the Pyramid 00
Bad Mexican, Bad American 00
II
The Magician 00
The Surrealist Café 00
The Recluse 00
Quetzalcoatl in the City 00
Insomniac Moon 00
The Golden Telescope 00
Mirage 00
No Internet 00
The Hummingbird Graffiti 00
Lizard Man 00
Wolverine on Hollywood Blvd. 00
My Life as a French Existential Novelist 00
The Road 00
Meeting Octavio Paz on the Planet Jupiter 00
My Date with Frida Kahlo 00
Meeting James Tate in Heaven 00
III
The Jaguar Tattoo 00
The Rooster Tattoo 00
The Showdown 00
The Void 00
The Anarchy 00
The Fair 00
El Melancólico 00
The Pirate Ship 00
The Fall 00
The Ollie 00
Ode to a California Neck Tattoo 00
Sunday Cruise 00
Tuesday 00
The Conformist 00
The Rebel 00
The Stranger 00
IV
Voice 00
The Moon 00
The Gargoyle 00
The Advertisements 00
The First Day of Autumn 00
The West 00
The Blue Hummingbird 00
The Ocean Is Not a Capitalist 00
The Surfer and the Jaguar 00
The End of a Decade 00
Bones 00
Ghost 00
At the Funeral for van Gogh’s Ear 00
At the Cemetery of Dead Poets 00
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 141 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-946724-73-4 / 1946724734 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-946724-73-1 / 9781946724731 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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