We cannot verify your location
Browse Book and Journal Content on Project MUSE
OR
Browse > Creative Writing > Poetry
title

Full Foreground

Roberto Tejada

Publication Year: 2012

<DIV><P>Poet Roberto Tejada uses lyrical poems to explore and give a voice to the troubles of global citizenship, US&ndash;Mexico relations, Latino identity, and the political emotion of queer sexualities. His collection provides a holistic ground-level view of pivotal world events from the mid 1990s to a more recent present.</P><P>Tejada&rsquo;s innovative work dramatically widens the scope of Latina/o literature, showing us exactly what it can accomplish. The poems move very much like a three-act play, in which the first act is one of origins; the second, a staging of desire; and the third, a symbiosis. These acts magnify one another when unified. Each poem within the collection positions itself within the avant-garde, in which the artful use of language aims to dazzle, surprise, and enliven. The poems dance by, preserving a tension between hurry and delay, momentum and stasis, and every line is like a newly launched firecracker, sending out startling patterns of spark and flare.</P><P>Tejada&rsquo;s exuberant language stretches the limits of selfhood and the way it is represented in poetry. He illuminates the tangled webs that are woven when identities are linked to sexuality, nationality, privilege, and temporality. The concerns and obsessions voiced here turn the construction of desire on its head, forcing us to ask ourselves what is worthy of our attentions.</P></DIV>

Published by: University of Arizona Press

Cover

pdf iconDownload PDF (48.0 KB)
 

Title Page, Copyright

pdf iconDownload PDF (144.0 KB)
 

Contents

pdf iconDownload PDF (27.6 KB)
 

read more

Acknowledgments

pdf iconDownload PDF (56.5 KB)
pp. ix-

Grateful acknowledgment to publishers of the limited-edition chapbooks, literary journals, and anthologies in which some of these works first appeared: ...

Prologue: The Archive Ballad

pdf iconDownload PDF (10.5 KB)
 

I am a concept

pdf iconDownload PDF (27.6 KB)
pp. 1-

1. If Even Such Miracles Are Rare . . .

Piano wire of the last word

pdf iconDownload PDF (27.3 KB)
pp. 5-

If Even Such Miracles Are Rare

pdf iconDownload PDF (37.9 KB)
pp. 6-7

The intelligentsia of Los Angeles

pdf iconDownload PDF (27.3 KB)
pp. 8-

As if still awake

pdf iconDownload PDF (36.7 KB)
pp. 9-

Animals oblivious

pdf iconDownload PDF (28.0 KB)
pp. 10-

The kind of line I'm describing

pdf iconDownload PDF (28.3 KB)
pp. 12-13

Being a day

pdf iconDownload PDF (27.7 KB)
pp. 14-

(Taxco: The Hills)

pdf iconDownload PDF (27.3 KB)
pp. 15-

Source or matrix

pdf iconDownload PDF (27.3 KB)
pp. 16-

Newer measure to the ethics

pdf iconDownload PDF (27.3 KB)
pp. 17-

Field of material contentions

pdf iconDownload PDF (27.3 KB)
pp. 18-

2. Full Foreground

Flatlands

pdf iconDownload PDF (51.8 KB)
pp. 21-23

Three blind mice

pdf iconDownload PDF (29.4 KB)
pp. 25-26

Not a word of my surrounding

pdf iconDownload PDF (29.0 KB)
pp. 27-28

Impulse in the great organism of terror

pdf iconDownload PDF (29.6 KB)
pp. 29-30

Full foreground and shortcomings

pdf iconDownload PDF (29.0 KB)
pp. 32-33

Caught between the last ground

pdf iconDownload PDF (29.6 KB)
pp. 34-35

Low in tar and nicotine

pdf iconDownload PDF (28.2 KB)
pp. 36-

An establishment containing such a furnace

pdf iconDownload PDF (29.2 KB)
pp. 38-39

It happens when the drift-rebounding

pdf iconDownload PDF (28.9 KB)
pp. 40-41

3. Amulet Anatomy

Honeycomb perfection of this form

pdf iconDownload PDF (46.3 KB)
pp. 45-46

What it means

pdf iconDownload PDF (29.0 KB)
pp. 47-48

A reverence in the order of time

pdf iconDownload PDF (28.9 KB)
pp. 49-50

Sun bursting as in water beads

pdf iconDownload PDF (28.5 KB)
pp. 51-52

Weather suited

pdf iconDownload PDF (29.8 KB)
pp. 53-54

The plain terms this place a conversation

pdf iconDownload PDF (47.5 KB)
pp. 56-58

by what authority

pdf iconDownload PDF (27.6 KB)
pp. 59-

Afterlife: Anniversary

pdf iconDownload PDF (10.5 KB)
 

Where on the morning

pdf iconDownload PDF (45.9 KB)
pp. 63-

Notes

pdf iconDownload PDF (46.0 KB)
pp. 65-

read more

About the Author

pdf iconDownload PDF (104.1 KB)
 

Roberto Tejada is the author of two books of poetry, Mirrors for Gold and Exposition Park. An art historian, his other books include ...


E-ISBN-13: 9780816599325
Print-ISBN-13: 9780816521333

Page Count: 88
Publication Year: 2012

Series Title: Camino del Sol

Research Areas

Recommend

UPCC logo
  • You have access to this content
  • Free sample
  • Open Access
  • Restricted Access

Welcome to Project MUSE

Use the Search box at the top of the page to find book and journal content. Refine results with the filtering options on the left side of the results page. Use the Browse box to browse a selection of books and journals.

Connect with Project MUSE

Project MUSE | 2715 North Charles Street | Baltimore, Maryland USA 21218 | (410) 516-6989 | About | Contact | Help | Tools | Order

©2013 Project MUSE. Produced by The Johns Hopkins University Press in collaboration with The Milton S. Eisenhower Library.