Bibliograph

Museum of the Americas, J. Michael Martinez

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Label

Museum of the Americas, J. Michael Martinez

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Museum of the Americas

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1022205662

Responsibility statement

J. Michael Martinez

Series statement

National poetry series

Summary

"Winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity. The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be allegorically coded with the transhistorical consequences of an imperial sociopolitical narrative. Engaging eighteenth-century Mexican casta paintings, the morbid lynching postcards of William Horne, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas traces an aesthetic out of racialized scenes of corporeal excess. Hybrid in form, Museum of the Americas voices itself in theory, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Throughout, Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through an observer's visual perception of that body. For Martinez, the corporeal always serves as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. His work revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the biopolitical appropriations that render it a disposable aesthetic object"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Potus XLV -- Crossing the border -- Instructions for identifying "Illegal" immigrants -- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- Rosary (Prayer One) -- Family photo -- Mi Bisabuela con Mi Abuela -- Lord, spanglish me -- Family photo -- Slicing their wedding cake -- Casta paintings, an erotics of negation -- The Mexican War Photo Postcard Company -- "Triple execution in Mexico" -- "Bodies of 3 men lying as they fell after being executed" -- "Execution in Mexico" -- "Yncineracion de Cadaveres en Balbuena" -- "One grave for 63 men after the Big Battle" -- "Executing bandits in Mexico" -- "The executioner's palisade" -- The head of Joaquin Murrieta -- Museum of the Americas -- On the naturalization of alien immigrants -- [executive order] -- Skin maps -- The red anchor -- Of Maximo and Bartola, the Aztec children -- Brown I see you, Brown I don't -- The Curandera's tale of the agave's bloom -- The wake of Maria de Jesus Martinez -- Where love is ground to wheat

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