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Synopsis
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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
- ISBN: 9780816535118
- Number of pages: 72
- Dimensions: 223 x 147 x 7 mm
- Weight: 120g
- Languages: English
