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Tarta Americana by J. Michael Martinez, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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Tarta Americana by J. Michael Martinez, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
From J. Michael Martinez
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From J. Michael Martinez
Tarta Americana by J. Michael Martinez, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desireRagged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories. Against the recent tide of white nationalism in the United States, Tarta Americana finds a rhinestone in Ritchie Valens, the rock and roll legend, surfacing across time and bodies, genders and sounds, displacing the linear unfolding of desire and biography. Valens, the embodiment of corporeal transcendence, guides Martinez as he expresses his own neurodiversity, his struggles and triumphs, interrogating memory, gender, and race, traversing pain in search of compassion and joy. Tarta Americana, tarred and glittering, melodic in its screams, overdrives text and space in chase of American politics that could, at last, harmonize love with redemption. | Tarta Americana by J. Michael Martinez, Paperback | Indigo Chapters