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1 online resource (ix, 75 pages) illustration |
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The Ernest Sandeen prize in poetry ; 2023 |
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Ernest Sandeen prize in poetry ; 2023.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Alternator. nature armed medicine -- Umbral -- Only we make beautiful things just to destroy them -- '69 Chevy Impala -- I don't know what else to tell you about teargas -- Anther -- San Francisco -- This is the kind of shit I can't talk to anyone about -- God is a jacket made of tinsel -- La cuenta -- George Michael at the Virgin Megastore -- Desfile -- Disco -- '61 Ford Sunliner -- I('m) a dominó, every here -- You. Just. Can't. Kill. Us. -- Happiness is going to pieces -- Distributor. I want to last -- Do you know what time it is? -- La corona -- '70 Chevy El Camino -- '85 Chevy El Camino -- Caprice Classic -- Thank you 1-800#s -- Still -- each and every -- I take -- and keep -- my flesh -- I'm that bitch: a voice mail -- Three girls in a subway -- Transmission. Dictation -- We had to become doves: an American sonnet -- Jotería [All the things you forgot to say] -- In college I learned to swim -- Cyanotype (in a New York Public Library) -- At 4 a.m., the radio is off -- It is winter and you're no bunny slope -- Overheard in a garden -- Here, my photo of you -- Mexika hi fem (Coatlicue come) -- Notes |
| Summary |
"Behind the wheel of this book is an insistent, humorous voice whose experiences have lent themselves to a deep, intimate knowledge of survival, driven by the pursuit of joy and exalted pleasure. Raised in and near auto body shops, Vickie Vértiz remembers visiting them to elevate the family car to examine what's underneath, to see what's working and what's not. The poetry in this book is also a body shop, but instead we take our bodies, identities, desires, and see what's firing. In this shop we ask: What needs changing? How do our bodies transcend ways of being we have received so that we may become more ourselves?"--Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
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Mexican American women -- Poetry
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry
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Mexican American women
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780268203948 |
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0268203946 |
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9780268203917 |
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0268203911 |
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