Machete
Machete This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts.Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca (God squeezes,…
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Machete
This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts.Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca (God squeezes, but He doesn't strangle)--the epigraph of Machete--sets the stage for a powerful poet who summons a variety of ways to endure life when there's an invisible hand at your throat. They are long, lean, and dazzle in their telling: Whiteface is a list of instructions for people stopped by the police; Duct Tape lauds our domestic life from the point of view of the tape itself.One part Groucho Marx, Tom s Mor n hails from the coastal plains of Texas, and explores a world where identity and place shift like that ever-changing shore.In these poems, culture crashes like waves and leaves behind Billie Holiday and the CIA, disco balls and Dante, the Bible and Jerry Maguire.