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Mixology

By Adrian , Matejka

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2009
ISBN
978-1-101-05719-3, 110105719X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
483 kB (494762 bytes)
Series
National poetry series
Pages
80\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Race -- Poetry. Race.

Description

Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin Young The poems in Adrian Matejka's second collection, Mixology, shapeshift through the myriad meanings of "mixing" to explore and explode ideas of race, skin politics, appropriation, and cultural identity. Whether the focus of the individual poems is musical, digital, or historical, the otherness implicit in being of more than one racial background guides Matejka's work to the inevitable conclusion that all things-no matter how disparate-are parts of the whole. Read more... Abstract: Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin Young The poems in Adrian Matejka's second collection, Mixology, shapeshift through the myriad meanings of "mixing" to explore and explode ideas of race, skin politics, appropriation, and cultural identity. Whether the focus of the individual poems is musical, digital, or historical, the otherness implicit in being of more than one racial background guides Matejka's work to the inevitable conclusion that all things-no matter how disparate-are parts of the whole

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