{"product_id":"diaz-jose-hernandez-bad-mexicapb","title":"Diaz, Jose Hernandez: Bad Mexican, Bad American","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcre Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 5th, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: This collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBad Mexican, Bad American\u003c\/i\u003e, the minimalist, working-class aesthetic of a \"disadvantaged Brown kid\" takes wing in prose poems that recall and celebrate that form's ties to Surrealism. With influences like Alberto Ríos and Ray Gonzalez on one hand, and James Tate and Charles Baudelaire on the other, the collection spectacularly combines \"high\" art and folk art in a way that collapses those distinctions, as in the poem \"My Date with Frida Kahlo\" \"Frida and I had Cuban coffee and then vegetarian tacos. We sipped on mescal and black tea. At the end of the night, I tried to make a move on her. She feigned resistance at first but then aggressively kissed me back. We kissed for about thirty minutes beneath a protest mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBad Mexican, Bad American\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how having roots in more than one culture can be both unsettling and rich: van Gogh and Beethoven share the page with tattoos, graffiti, and rancheras; Quetzalcoatl shows up at Panda Express; a Mexican American child who has never had a Mexican American teacher may become that teacher; a parent's \"broken\" English is beautiful and masterful. Blending reality with dream and humility with hope, Hernandez Diaz contributes a singing strand to the complex cultural weave that is twenty-first-century poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40763571208215,"sku":"9781946724731","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/71ztIU0nFNL._SL1500.jpg?v=1701297563","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/diaz-jose-hernandez-bad-mexicapb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}