β Scribed by Martinez, J. Michael
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eadyβ An exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity
The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be allegorically coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial sociopolitical narrative. Engaging 18th century Mexican casta paintings, the morbid lynching postcards of William Horne, the Treaty of Guadalupe and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas traces an aesthetics out of racialized scenes of corporeal excess. Hybrid in form, Museum of the Americas voices itself in theory, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Throughout, Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through an observer's visual perception of that body. For Martinez, the corporeal always serves as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. His work...
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