Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems Salazar C. T.
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems Salazar C. T. The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner.In C. T. His restless relationship with religion ("a child told me there was a god…
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Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems Salazar C. T.
The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner.In C. T. His restless relationship with religion ("a child told me there was a god / and because he was smiling, I believed him") eventually includes a reclamation of the language of belief in the name of desire. Salazar's striking debut poetry collection, the speaker is situated in the tradition of Southern literature but reimagines its terrain with an eye on the South's historic and ongoing violence.
And, as the title poem asserts, a headless body "leaves more room for salvation."Though Salazar's South is not a tender place, the book is a petition for tenderness, revealing in both place and people the possibilities for mercy, vulnerability, and wonder. "I felt myself become gospel in your hands," the speaker tells his beloved. The lyric I, as it creates an archive of experience, is not distanced from the