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02149aam a2200265 i 4500 001 9A91D67CF0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240402011628 008 230924t20242024ohu 000 p eng d 020 $a 1946724734 020 $a 9781946724731 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1399164908 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d POETS $d IMD $d OCLCO $d SDG $d YDX $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3608.E7685 $b B33 2024 082 04 $a 811.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Hernandez Diaz, Jose $c (Poet), $e author. 245 10 $a Bad Mexican, bad American : $b poems / $c Jose Hernandez Diaz. 260 $a Cincinnati, OH : $b Acre, $c 2024. 300 $a 74 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a In Bad Mexican, Bad American, the minimalist, working-class aesthetic of a âdisadvantaged Brown kidâ takes wing in prose poems that recall and celebrate that form?s ties to Surrealism. With influences like Alberto R?os and Ray Gonzalez on one hand, and James Tate and Charles Baudelaire on the other, the collection spectacularly combines âhighâ art and folk art in a way that collapses those distinctions, as in the poem âMy Date with Frida Kahloâ: âFrida and I had Cuban coffee and then vegetarian tacos. We sipped on mescal and black tea. At the end of the night, following an awkward silence during a conversation on Cubism, we kissed for about thirty minutes beneath a protest mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros.â It demonstrates how having roots in more than one culture can be both unsettling and rich: van Gogh and Beethoven share the page with tattoos, graffiti, and rancheras; Quetzalcoatl shows up at Panda Express; a Mexican American child who has never had a Mexican American teacher may become that teacher; a parent?s âbrokenâ English is beautiful and masterful. Blending reality with dream and humility with hope, Hernandez Diaz contributes a singing strand to the complex cultural weave that is twenty-first-century poetry. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012840.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9A91D67CF0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search