My Kill Adore Him (Andrs Montoya Poetry Prize)

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UPC:
9780268035181
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
8/20/2009
Release Date:
3/15/2016
Author:
Paul Martnez Pompa
Language:
english
Edition:
1st
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My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poems from Andrs Montoya Poetry Prize-winner Paul Martnez Pompa. With a unique, independent voice, Martnez Pompa interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones, who range from the usual suspects brutalized by police to factory workers poisoned by their environment, from the victim of a homophobic beating in the boys bathroom to the body of Juan Doe at the Cook County Coroners Office. Some of the poems rely on somber, at times brutal, imagery to articulate a political stance while others use sarcasm and irony to deconstruct political stances themselves.