In the Garden of the Bridehouse Contributor(s): Martinez, J. Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816530890 ISBN-13: 9780816530892 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2013047275 |
Series: Camino del Sol |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.30 lbs) 80 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Through lyrical procedures of self-immolation, this brave new collection by J. Michael Martinez interrogates the sundry roles language, myth, and sexuality play for the self and the other in the recoverable and irrecoverable past. Parallel to his award-winning first collection Heredities, J. Michael Martinez pushes the boundaries of poetic form, wedding historically oppositional lyrical traditions to deliver a collection unlike any other. Turning the page into a visual field, as in the deconstructed musical score telling the tale of La Llorona, In the Garden of the Bridehouse questions the line between visual art and poetry. The work employs the vernacular, the stylized language of theory, and the blank canvas of the page in its exploration of the known and unknowable. Throughout the work, Martinez paradoxically exercises both a lyrical minimalism and a baroque poetic, uniting Mesoamerican preconquest imaginary with the sensuality of the Biblical Song of Songs, cultivating a lyrical space wherein contrasting potentials are--as one--realized in their shared promise. |