{"product_id":"machete-poems-paperback","title":"Machete: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom S. Q. Mor N.\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Morín's writing uses the mundane details of everyday life...as a jumping-off point for creating fascinating and philosophical worlds.\" --\u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca\" (\"God squeezes, but He doesn't strangle\")--the epigraph of \u003ci\u003eMachete\u003c\/i\u003e--sets the stage for a powerful poet who summons a variety of ways to endure life when there's an invisible hand at your throat. Tomás Morín hails from the coastal plains of Texas, and explores a world where identity and place shift like that ever-changing shore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these poems, culture crashes like waves and leaves behind Billie Holiday and the CIA, disco balls and Dante, the Bible and Jerry Maguire. They are long, lean, and dazzle in their telling: \"Whiteface\" is a list of instructions for people stopped by the police; \"Duct Tape\" lauds our domestic life from the point of view of the tape itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne part Groucho Marx, one part Job, Morín considers our obsession with suffering--\"the pain in which we trust\"--and finds that the best answer to our predicament is sometimes anger, sometimes laughter, but always via the keen line between them that may be the sharpest weapon we have.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTOMÁS Q. MORÍN is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eLet Me Count the Ways\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2023 Vulgar Genius Nonfiction Award, as well as the poetry collections \u003ci\u003ePatient Zero\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Larger Country\u003c\/i\u003e. He is coeditor, with Mari L'Esperance, of the anthology \u003ci\u003eComing Close\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eForty Essays on Philip Levine\u003c\/i\u003e and a translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Heights of Macchu Picchu\u003c\/i\u003e by Pablo Neruda. He teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Morín lives with his family in Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.05 x 8.3 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42152827060359,"sku":"9781524711986","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/936ea6b20674dd0b578b7cbdaa61a6da.webp?v=1733216818","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/machete-poems-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}