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Post traumatic hood disorder : poems / by David Tomas Martinez.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2018]Edition: First editionDescription: 95 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781946448095
  • 1946448095
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
They call him Scarface because he's sad -- And one -- Love song -- Incidentally -- Hoodies -- Tattletale -- The/A train -- Aa -- Consider Oedipus' father -- And two -- Us vs them -- Winter night -- In defence of poetry voice -- Super heterosexual me wears women's jeans because the first time -- Allegedly Hemingway wrote drunk -- Hexaptych on ambition -- Falling -- After imagism -- Foster's freeze -- On dreaming of my wife -- Drinking alone -- And three -- Sports analogy -- Second wave -- Drawing water -- History lesson -- Fractal -- Footnoting Biggie lyrics like Why Christmas missed us -- A Kiss -- Flight of love -- The art of the vigilante -- And four -- Found fragment on ambition -- Playing hangman.
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"One of the most exciting and visceral poets of his generation."--Tony Hoagland

"Look at homie on the beach picking shells in dress shoes," David Tomas Martinez writes in his raw, electrifying second collection. In his debut, Hustle , Martinez offered a kaleidoscopic coming-of-age narrative replete with teen shootings and car-jackings, uncertain forays into sex, and the ongoing violence of colonialism upon Latino communities in San Diego. Emerging from the fray, the poet is left to wonder: Who am I now? In Post Traumatic Hood Disorder , the speaker assembles a bricolage self-portrait from the fractures of the past. Sliding between scholarly diction and slangy vernacular, studded with references to Greek mythology and hip-hop, Martinez's poems showcase a versatility of language and a wild-hearted poetic energy that is thoughtful, vulnerable, and distinctly American.

David Tomas Martinez is a recipient of a 2017 NEA fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Verlaine Poetry Prize, a CantoMundo fellowship, and the Stanley P. Young Fellowship from Breadloaf. His debut collection of poetry, Hustle (2014, Sarabande Books) received the New England Book Festival's prize in poetry, the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and $10,000 as honorable mention from the Antonio Cisneros Del Moral Prize. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, Tin House, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Oxford American, Prairie Schooner , and elsewhere. Martinez lives in Brooklyn, NY.

They call him Scarface because he's sad -- And one -- Love song -- Incidentally -- Hoodies -- Tattletale -- The/A train -- Aa -- Consider Oedipus' father -- And two -- Us vs them -- Winter night -- In defence of poetry voice -- Super heterosexual me wears women's jeans because the first time -- Allegedly Hemingway wrote drunk -- Hexaptych on ambition -- Falling -- After imagism -- Foster's freeze -- On dreaming of my wife -- Drinking alone -- And three -- Sports analogy -- Second wave -- Drawing water -- History lesson -- Fractal -- Footnoting Biggie lyrics like Why Christmas missed us -- A Kiss -- Flight of love -- The art of the vigilante -- And four -- Found fragment on ambition -- Playing hangman.

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