Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Arktoi BooksISBN-13:9780989036108ISBN-10:989036103UPC:9780989036108Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, LGBTQ+, Women AuthorsBook Topic:Hispanic & LatinoAward:2014 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Lesbian Poetry AwardSize:9.03 x 7.06 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.47Product ID:SCT0S2A3F9
Chopper! Chopper! reflects the lives of Mexican Americans, immigrants, Chicanas/os, and la joter\u00eda--malfloras, jotos, and beautiful rainbow communities. As vividly as Mexican Technicolor, these poems capture life in the barrio: vendors hauling carts with elote, raspados, botes y m\u00e1s. Vatos fighting to exist. Mujeres claiming space. Summer evenings, children playing in the calles of East L.A., El Paso, and bordered tierras everywhere. Reyes's work exudes the pride, strength, turmoil and struggle of neighborhoods brimming with tradition and invention, estilo a la brava. These homegrown verses reveal the barrio in all its intricate layers. Revering difference, they fight to make room for something new: Marimacha Poetry. \u00a1Y Qu\u00e9!
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Arktoi BooksISBN-13:9780989036108ISBN-10:989036103UPC:9780989036108Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, LGBTQ+, Women AuthorsBook Topic:Hispanic & LatinoAward:2014 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Lesbian Poetry AwardSize:9.03 x 7.06 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.47Product ID:SCT0S2A3F9
Verónica Reyes is a Chicana feminist jota poet from East Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA from California State University, Long Beach and her MFA from University of Texas, El Paso. Her poems give voice to all her communities: Chicanas/os, immigrants, Mexican Americans, and la jotería. Reyes has won AWP's Intro-Journal Project, an Astraea Lesbian Foundation Emerging Artist award, and was a Finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry award. She has received grants and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, and Montalvo Arts Center. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Feminist Studies, ZYZZYVA, and The New York Quarterly. She is a proud member of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) and Macondo Writers' Workshop.
Publisher: Arktoi Books
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🏆 2014 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Lesbian Poetry Award
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