Machete : poems
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Adult Non-Fiction - Non-Fiction Sect.
811.6 Morín
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x, 76 pages ; 23 cm
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"This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts. "Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca" ("God squeezes, but He doesn't strangle")--the epigraph of Machete--sets the stage for a powerful poet who summons a variety of ways to endure life when there's an invisible hand at your throat. Tomás Morín hails from the coastal plains of Texas, and explores a world where identity and place shift like that ever-changing shore. In these poems, culture crashes like waves and leaves behind Billie Holiday and the CIA, disco balls and Dante, the Bible and Jerry Maguire. They are long, lean and dazzle in their telling: "Whiteface" is a list of instructions for people stopped by the police; "Duct Tape" lauds our domestic life from the point of view of the tape itself. One part Groucho Marx, one part Job, Morín considers our obsession with suffering--"the pain in which we trust"--and finds that the best answer to our predicament is sometimes anger, sometimes laughter, but always via the keen line between them that may be the sharpest weapon we have"--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Morín, T. Q. (2021). Machete: poems (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Morín, Tomás Q.. 2021. Machete: Poems. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Morín, Tomás Q.. Machete: Poems Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Morín, Tomás Q.. Machete: Poems First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
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