Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives
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chicano
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contemporary poetry collection
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experimental writing
healing
imagery
immigrants
immigration
journey
literary poems
metaphor
mexican american poet
multicultural
neighborhoods
pride
strength
symbolism
tradition
turmoil
use of language
Product details
- ISBN 9780989036108
- Weight: 213g
- Dimensions: 177 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 14 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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!
