Tarta Americana Martinez J. Michael
Tarta Americana Martinez J. Michael A suite of poems that channels the life of the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and…
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Tarta Americana Martinez J. Michael
A suite of poems that channels the life of the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and sexualityRagged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories. Valens, the embodiment of corporeal transcendence, guides Martinez as he expresses his own neurodiversity, his struggles and triumphs, interrogating AI, history, gender, and race, traversing pain in search of compassion and joy. Against the recent tide of white nationalism in the United States, Tarta Americana finds a rhinestone in Ritchie Valens, the rock and roll legend, surfacing across time and bodies, genders and sounds, displacing the linear unfolding of desire and biography.
Tarta Americana,