Bury My Heart Under the Martian Sky: and Other Poems - Paperback

Pérez, Juan Manuel: - Juan Manuel Pérez is a Mexican-American poet of Indigenous descent and former Poet Laureate of Corpus Christi, Texas. He is the author of numerous award-nominated poetry books, including O' Dark Heaven: A Response to Suzette Haden Elgin's Definition of Horror, Sex, Lies, and Chupacabras, Space In Pieces, Screw The Wall! And Other Brown People Poems, Planet Of The Zombie Zonnets: Seasons One And Two, Terror Of The Zombie Zonnets: Planet Of The Zombie Zonnets Season Three, Truth In The Time Of Chupacabras, and Thirty Years Ago: Life And The First Gulf War.Juan is the co-founder of The House of the Fighting Chupacabras Press as well as the co-editor of the speculative poetry anthologies, Unleash Your Inner Chupacabra, and The Call Of The Chupacabra. He is the Lone Star State's only El Chupacabras Poet Laureate (For Life), and a Zombie Texas Poet Of The Year.Juan is previously from La Pryor, Texas, and a former migrant field worker. A ten-year U.S. Navy veteran, Pérez served as a Navy Corpsman/Combat Marine Medic during the 1991 Gulf War and in the 1992 Hurricane Andrew relief effort. A past Gourd Dancer with the Memphis Tia Piah Big River Clan Warrior Society, he is now a teacher in the Texas Coastal Bend and a SEATTAH Scholar through the University of Dallas.To learn more about him, go to https: //www.juanmperez.com/