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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Vértiz, Vickie
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| Publisher: |
University of Arizona Press
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| Date: |
09/26/2017
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut uses both humor and sincerity to capture moments in time with a sense of compassion for the hard choices we must make to survive. Vértiz's poetry shows how history, oppression, and resistance don't just refer to big events or movements; they play out in our everyday lives, in the intimate spaces of family, sex, and neighborhood. Vértiz's poems ask us to see Los Angeles-and all cities like it-as they have always been: an America of code-switching and reinvention, of lyric and fight.
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