My Kill Adore Him
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University of Notre Dame Press · Ebook · August 20, 2009
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- Who it’s for
- Poems examine masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity.
- Themes
- Masculinity, race, and cultural identity, Political critique, The overlooked and marginalized
- Genres
- Hispanic American Poetry, Political & Protest Poetry, LGBTQ+ Poetry
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My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poems from Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize-winner Paul Martínez Pompa. With a unique, independent voice, Martínez Pompa interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones, who range from the usual suspects brutalized by police to factory workers poisoned by their environment, from the victim of a homophobic beating in the boys?
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bathroom to the body of Juan Doe at the Cook County Coroner?s Office. Some of the poems rely on somber, at times brutal, imagery to articulate a political stance while others use sarcasm and irony to deconstruct political stances themselves.
Los olvidados
Poems examine masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity.
Come here for
- Poems honoring los olvidados, from factory workers to police-brutality victims
Expect
- Somber, sometimes brutal imagery
- Sarcasm and irony that deconstruct political stances
Where it sits
| Hispanic American Poetry | 85% |
|---|---|
| LGBTQ+ Poetry | 70% |
| Political & Protest Poetry | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hispanic American Lit Crit
- Hispanic American Poetry
- Race & Discrimination
- Authors
- Paul Martínez Pompa
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Published
- August 20, 2009
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Masculinity, race, and cultural identity · Political critique · The overlooked and marginalized
- Reading lane
- Hispanic American Lit Crit