Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut by Vickie Vértiz, University of Arizona Press
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Author: Vickie Vértiz ISBN: 9780816537587
Publisher: University of Arizona Press Publication: September 26, 2017
Imprint: University of Arizona Press Language: English
Author: Vickie Vértiz
ISBN: 9780816537587
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication: September 26, 2017
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Language: English

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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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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