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- Heredities: Poems
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Louisiana State University Press
- Series: Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
summary
In his award-winning first book, J. Michael Martinez reenvisions Latino poetics and its current conceptions of cultural identity. In Heredities, he opens a historically ravaged continental body through a metaphysical dissection into Being and silence. The hand manipulates a surgical etymology through the spine: the longitude where "history gathers in the name we never are." The poems seek to speak beyond codified aesthetics and dictated identity politics in order to recognize a territory of "irreducible otherness" where the self's sinew may be "reeved through revelation" and where, finally, one finds "obscurity bonded to light." This stunning collection heralds the arrival of an important new voice in American poetry.
Table of Contents
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- I
- He Name Me Miklo
- p. 9
- II
- Water Poppies Open as the Mouth
- pp. 22-23
- Binding of the Reeds
- pp. 24-26
- Heredities: Letters of Relation
- pp. 27-45
- The Sternum of Our Lady of Guadalupe
- pp. 47-48
- III
- In the Year of the Jubilee
- pp. 55-59
- The Quietest Heaven
- p. 60
- White Song
- pp. 61-62
- Portrait of an Iris
- p. 63
- Heredities (4) Amma
- pp. 71-74
Additional Information
ISBN
9780807137598
Related ISBN(s)
9780807136430
MARC Record
OCLC
663112638
Pages
88
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No