My Kill Adore Him

Paul Martínez Pompa

Description

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’ 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.

Sujets

• América
• Literature
• Hispanic
• Poetry
• American
• Latino
• Discrimination

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 20 août 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780268087203
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

MY KILL ADORE HIM
THE ANDR S MONTOYA POETRY PRIZE
2004, Pity the Drowned Horses , Sheryl Luna
Final Judge: Robert Vasquez
2006, The Outer Bands , Gabriel Gomez
Final Judge: Valerie Mart nez
2008, My Kill Adore Him , Paul Mart nez Pompa
Final Judge: Mart n Espada
The Andr s Montoya Poetry Prize, named after the late California native
and author of the award-winning book, The Iceworker Sings ,
supports the publication of a first book by a Latino or Latina poet.
Awarded every other year, the prize is administered by Letras Latinas-
the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies
at the University of Notre Dame
MY KILL ADORE HIM
PAUL MART NEZ POMPA
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana
Copyright 2009 by Paul Mart nez Pompa
Published by the University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
www.undpress.nd.edu
All Rights Reserved
Reprinted in 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mart nez Pompa, Paul.
My kill adore him / Paul Mart nez Pompa.
p. cm. - (Andr s Montoya poetry prize)
ISBN-13: 978-0-268-03518-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-268-03518-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Political poetry, American. I. Title.
PS3613.A7869M9 2009
813 .6-dc22
2009022899
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources .
ISBN 9780268087203
This e-Book was converted from the original source file by a third-party vendor. Readers who notice any formatting, textual, or readability issues are encouraged to contact the publisher at [e-mail] .
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Poems
Mart n Espada
I. A LESSON IN MASCULINITY
Film Strip
The Performer
Pulling Tongue
The Physics of Crime
Edwin Sucks Dick
Officer Friendly
The Peanut Butter Jelly Narratives
Flirting
A Lesson in Masculinity
Blow by Blow
With the Eyes Alone
II. CITY OF BROKEN
Clamor
Want
How to Hear Chicago
Recoil
Police Dog
The Debris It Carries
Men Watching Men
Bones
Garbage Truck
Hit Run
Elegy for Winter
Sieve
III. THE WAR ON POETS GOES ON
Retablos: 10 Deleted Tongues
The War on Poets Goes On
Sucker MC
On the Significance of Che, Dead in the Laundry House of the Vallegrande Hospital, Nuestro Se or de Malta
The Body as Weapon, as Inspiration
Amputee Etcetera
The Abuelita Poem
Poetry Reading at the Caf Tamale
Exclamation Point
Commercial Break
IV. WHILE LATE CAPITALISM
Shower Stall Baller
Erectile Miss
Male Pattern
Drink Bovicola
Banana Republic Politick
Identity Politick
Political Plasma
Manifesto
While Late Capitalism
Hunger Strike
Mykilladoreher
Notes
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following publications in which some of these poems appeared, sometimes in earlier versions:
After Hours: A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art : Flirting
Barrow Street : part four of Mykilladoreher
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review : While Late Capitalism
Epicenter : On the Significance of Che, Dead in the Laundry House of the Vallegrande Hospital, Nuestro Se or de Malta
Free Lunch : The War on Poets Goes On
Indiana English : The Performer
LOCUSPOINT : The Body as Weapon, as Inspiration
Michigan Avenue Review : Garbage Truck
Palabra : Drink Bovicola
Rhino : Police Dog, Want
Commercial Break appeared in Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience , edited by Louis Gerard Mendoza and Toni Nelson Herrera (National City, Califas: Calaca Press, 2007).
Retablos: 10 Deleted Tongues appeared in a broadside series created by Roberto Harrison.
Several poems here appeared in the chapbook Pepper Spray (Momotombo Press, 2006).
Nine poems here, some under different titles, also appeared in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry , edited by Francisco Arag n (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007).