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Book

Bad Mexican, bad American : poems

Call Number

  • 811 H5573 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Cincinnati, OH : Acre, 2024.

Physical Description

74 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community. --

Contents

  • Ballad of the West Coast Mexican American/Chicanx
  • Doña Ofelia
  • Familia
  • Ode to the Overlooked Minimalist Painting in the Gallery
  • Roots That Cracked the Pavement
  • My Father Never Ate until Everyone Had Eaten
  • Broken
  • My Mother's "Broken" English
  • The Pocha with the Adelita Tattoo
  • El Chacal
  • Folk Song
  • Bildungsroman of a Disadvantaged Brown Kid
  • I Never Had a Mexican American Teacher Growing Up
  • La Paleta
  • My Name
  • The Skeleton and the Pyramid
  • Bad Mexican, Bad American
  • The Magician
  • The Surrealist Café
  • The Recluse
  • Quetzalcoatl in the City
  • Insomniac Moon
  • The Golden Telescope
  • Mirage
  • No Internet
  • The Hummingbird Graffiti
  • Lizard Man
  • Wolverine in Hollywood Blvd.
  • My Life as a French Existentialist Novelist
  • The Road
  • Meeting Octavio Paz on the Planet Jupiter
  • My Date with Frida Kahlo
  • Meeting James Tate in Heaven
  • The Jaguar Tattoo
  • The Rooster Tattoo
  • The Showdown
  • The Void
  • The Anarchy
  • The Fair
  • El Melancólico
  • The Pirate Ship
  • The Fall
  • The Ollie
  • Ode to a California Neck Tattoo
  • Sunday Cruise
  • Tuesday
  • The Conformist
  • The Rebel
  • The Stranger
  • Voice
  • The Moon
  • The Gargoyle
  • The Advertisements
  • The First Day of Autumn
  • The West
  • The Blue Hummingbird
  • The Ocean is Not a Capitalist
  • The Surfer and the Jaguar
  • The End of a Decade
  • Bones
  • Ghost
  • At the Funeral for van Gogh's Ear
  • At the Cemetery of Dead Poets.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.