Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man
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absurdism
absurdism and surrealism
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California
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Chicanx
community
community and belonging
cultural pride
culture
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first-generation experience
hybrid
identity
Latinx
Latinx poetry
literary
literary homage
Los Angeles
Los Angeles culture
Mexican American
Mexican American identity
NEA fellow
odes
odes to everyday life
Orange County
prose poetry
resistance to racism
Southern California
Southwest
Spanglish
Spanish
straightforward
surreal prose poems
surrealism
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- ISBN 9781636282404
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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“What joys, what celebrations, and what tributes await the reader of Jose Hernandez Diaz’s Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.”—Iliana Rocha, author of The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez
This collection consists of odes to the Mexican American, first-gen experience as well as surreal prose poems with cultural references and settings native to the Los Angeles area.
The collection opens with odes to everyday images and symbols of the Latinx community. In an age of elevated racism, these odes seek to celebrate Latinx culture in the face of constant scapegoating, ridicule, and surveillance. Also, this collection explores surreal prose poetry both in the suburbs and barrios of Los Angeles and the larger American landscape. “A future prizewinner,” according to former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, this collection seeks to celebrate the Mexican American experience while also exploring how surrealism and absurdism can lead to wondrous discoveries about the self, community, and the imagination.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020), Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024), and The Parachutist (Sundress Publications, 2025). He has been published in the Yale Review, the London Magazine, and in the Southern Review. He teaches generative workshops for Hugo House, Lighthouse Writers Workshops, The Writer's Center, and elsewhere. Additionally, he serves as a Poetry Mentor in The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program. He is from Norwalk, California.
