The Yearning Feed

López, Manuel Paul

The Yearning Feed

Manuel Paul López

Publication Year: 2013

The poems in Manuel Paul López's The Yearning Feed, winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, are embedded in the San Diego/Imperial Valley regions, communities located along the U.S.-Mexico border. López, an Imperial Valley native, considers La Frontera, or the border, as magical, worthy of Macondo-like comparisons, where contradictions are firmly rooted and ironies play out on a daily basis. These poems synthesize López’s knowledge of modern and contemporary literature with a border-child vernacular sensibility to produce a work that illustrates the ongoing geographical and literary historical clash of cultures.

Published by: University of Notre Dame Press

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pp. C-C

Title Page, Copyright

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pp. i-vi

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pp. vii-viii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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pp. ix-xii

THE INTERVIEW

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pp. 1-2

Q: Can you share with us a unique story about your hometown in the Imperial Valley?
A: I heard a story once about a sheep—it’s actually a story about is what I’m trying to tell you. But it didn’t take long before tender buttons; but it didn’t take long, you know, before they I’ve always been captivated by this story regardless if it’s...