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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives

Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives

Reyes, Veronica

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0989036103
ISBN13: 9780989036108
Publisher: Arktoi Books
Published: Oct 1 2013
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.34 Width: 7.06 Depth: 9.03
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
Chopper! Chopper! reflects the lives of Mexican Americans, immigrants, Chicanas/os, and la joter\u00eda--malfloras, jotos, and beautiful rainbow communities. As vividly as Mexican Technicolor, these poems capture life in the barrio: vendors hauling carts with elote, raspados, botes y m\u00e1s. Vatos fighting to exist. Mujeres claiming space. Summer evenings, children playing in the calles of East L.A., El Paso, and bordered tierras everywhere. Reyes's work exudes the pride, strength, turmoil and struggle of neighborhoods brimming with tradition and invention, estilo a la brava. These homegrown verses reveal the barrio in all its intricate layers. Revering difference, they fight to make room for something new: Marimacha Poetry. \u00a1Y Qu\u00e9!

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