Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives

Chopper! Chopper! reflects the lives of Mexican Americans, immigrants, Chicanas/os, and la joter\u00eda--malfloras, jotos, and beautiful rainbow communities. As vividly as Mexican Technicolor, these poems capture life in the barrio: vendors hauling carts with elote, raspados, botes y m\u00e1s. Vatos fighting to exist. Mujeres claiming space. Summer evenings, children playing in the calles of East L.A., El Paso, and bordered tierras everywhere. Reyes's work exudes the pride, strength, turmoil and struggle of neighborhoods brimming with tradition and invention, estilo a la brava. These homegrown verses reveal the barrio in all its intricate layers. Revering difference, they fight to make room for something new: Marimacha Poetry. \u00a1Y Qu\u00e9!

Author: Veronica Reyes
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arktoi Books
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.03h x 7.06w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780989036108


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist