Tarta Americana /

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Author / Creator:Martinez, J. Michael, 1978- author.
Uniform title:Tarta Americana (Compilation)
Imprint:[New York, New York] : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]
©2023
Description:128 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Penguin poets
Penguin poets.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13287003
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ISBN:9780143137115
0143137115
9780525508625
Notes:Place of publication from publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:"A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire"--
Other form:Online version: Martinez, J. Michael, 1978- Tarta Americana New York : Penguin Poets, 2023 9780525508625
Table of Contents:
  • I
  • [Veils thru veils, though face sheared, you crushed to me]
  • [You're]
  • Ritchie Valens & the Glitter Wall
  • Fleshwater
  • My Three La Bambas
  • Tarta Americana
  • L_t_nX Spectrum Disorder (LSD)
  • All the Lushness Summer Walks
  • Arboles de la Vida
  • {{Mine}}
  • High School Summer Nights:
  • [Suddenly everything's all 1999]
  • Ixiptla (9) Tlazolteotl, the Filth Eater
  • ADHD Fail of the Week
  • LSD Orphic DisOrphism
  • {{And}}
  • II. Letters to Ritchie
  • I
  • II (There's no way to know the You language explodes into)
  • III
  • IV
  • {{We}}
  • V
  • [Belong]
  • VI
  • Ritchie & Bob
  • VII
  • VIII
  • IX
  • {{Yes,}}
  • X
  • XI
  • {{We}}
  • XII
  • Humpty Dumpty, LSD
  • PTSD Fail of the Week
  • XIII
  • [Belong]
  • XIV
  • [Together]
  • XV
  • XVI
  • XVII
  • {{Together}}
  • XVIII
  • XIX
  • {{For}}
  • XX
  • What My Father Sought Above All
  • [Eternity]
  • XXI
  • Forty-Four
  • III
  • My LSD Orpheus
  • The Donna Sonnets
  • Personal Effects, Richard Valenzuela
  • {{If You Think}}
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes