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El Rey of Gold Teeth
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.00
Publisher: Hub City Press
Published: Oct 3 2023
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Texas Institute of Letters Award finalist for Best First Book of Poetry
In El Rey of Gold Teeth, Reyes Ramirez explores living in America as a first-generation American of Salvadoran and Mexican descent, living among conflicting histories.
Through the voices of an astronaut, a tennis player, a drag queen, family members, an alternate version of the self, and even a turtle, these propulsive poems embody the many marginalized voices demanding to be remembered in a nation that requires erasure of histories.
Colonizing languages and subverting forms, rerouting histories, and finding the mundane made extraordinary, El Rey of Gold Teeth breaks open notions of destiny, in humorous and devastating ways, to reimagine the past and present a new future where lack transforms to abundance, where there will be many answers to every question. Reyes Ramirez's debut poetry collection plays in spaces of both elegy and joy, and introduces a vibrant new talent.
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