Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity "Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" -- The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of p Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series C...
| Title | : | Museum of the Americas |
| Author | : | J. Michael Martinez |
| Rating | : | |
| Genres | : | Poetry |
| ISBN | : | 0143133446 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 pages pages |
Museum of the Americas Reviews
This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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In ?Lord Spanglish Me,? J. Michael Martinez writes, ?Spanglish mi lengua para ti/ that I may break open the promise-space of my fear, & /become ladder;? a line that represents the heart of his poetry collection, Museum of the Americas. Martinez examines the historical conte...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
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This is a fascinating, layered collection of poetry that blurs genre in some really interesting ways. Martinez offers, as the title suggests, a museum of the Americas, and especially engages with Mexican migration and its effect on the body. Given the goings on of the world, this poetr...
This poetry collection, while on the NBA longlist, did not make the shortlist. There are some excellent poems here, but a few that played with form were not as good to me. Many of the poems, however, give a strong message about the Mexican-American experience and the treatment of indig...
My review for the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/bo... During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities. The contents consisted of objects whose categorical boundaries ? in natural history, zoology...
As with Claudia Rankine's Citizen, I admire the ambition behind Museum of the Americas more than I like the poetry. Martinez is very very smart about the contours of Latinx experience in a frequently hostile hemisphere dominated by Anglo simplifications and (mis)representations. His se...
Stunning and haunting, a must-read collection. ...
A moving collection of poems. 'Where Love is Ground to Wheat' is particularly memorable. ...
