Machete by Tomás Q. Morín
OVERVIEW
In these poems, culture crashes like waves and leaves behind Billie Holiday and the CIA, disco balls and Dante, the Bible and Jerry Maguire. They are long, lean, and dazzle in their telling: "Whiteface" is a list of instructions for people stopped by the police; "Duct Tape" lauds our domestic life from the point of view of the tape itself.
One part Groucho Marx, one part Job, Morín considers our obsession with suffering--"the pain in which we trust"--and finds that the best answer to our predicament is sometimes anger, sometimes laughter, but always via the keen line between them that may be the sharpest weapon we have.
PRODUCT INFO
- Publisher : Knopf (October 12, 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 96 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0593319648
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593319642
- Item Weight : 8.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.17 x 0.53 x 8.66 inches