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Machete: Poems
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ISBN10: 1524711985
ISBN13: 9781524711986
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jul 23 2024
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.05 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781524711986
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jul 23 2024
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.05 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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. MorÃn's writing uses the mundane details of everyday life...as a jumping-off point for creating fascinating and philosophical worlds. --LitHub
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 MorÃn 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, MorÃn 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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