The Yearning Feed
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
THE INTERVIEW
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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...
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E-ISBN-13: 9780268158743
E-ISBN-10: 0268085757
Print-ISBN-13: 9780268033897
Print-ISBN-10: 0268017832
Page Count: 120
Publication Year: 2013
OCLC Number: 867740383
MUSE Marc Record: Download for The Yearning Feed
