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The Day's Hard Edge: Poems

The Day's Hard Edge: Poems

Rodríguez, José Antonio

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ISBN10: 0810147254
ISBN13: 9780810147256
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Published: Jul 15 2024
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.97
Language: English
A radically open interrogation of queer Chicano identity

In his fourth poetry collection, José Antonio Rodríguez investigates how one constructs a relationship to the self, to community, and to poetry itself. The Day's Hard Edge is composed of three sections, the first of which situates the reader in the speaker's world, one marked by multiple forms of trauma. Here are the contours of the Texas/Mexico borderlands where the speaker's initial sense of self and community emerges. The second section broadens in scope and considers the potential and limitations of poetry as a site for meaning-making. The third section brings the speaker to a new understanding of the poem as it relates to the transformative and destabilizing experience of trauma. Ultimately this book lays bare an individual and, in doing so, shows how poetry acts as a place of succor and vulnerability for one's very identity. Together these poems explore what it means to be queer, immigrant, and Chicano.

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