An Incomplete List of Names
By Michael Torres
Foreword by Raquel Salas Rivera
By Michael Torres
Foreword by Raquel Salas Rivera
By Michael Torres
Foreword by Raquel Salas Rivera
By Michael Torres
Foreword by Raquel Salas Rivera
Part of National Poetry Series
Part of National Poetry Series
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$15.00
Oct 06, 2020 | ISBN 9780807046746
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Oct 06, 2020 | ISBN 9780807046784
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Praise
“[A] standout first collection . . . Torres steps into the sphere of such clarion American poets as Luis Rodriguez, Raúl Salinas, Juan Felipe Herrea, and Carlos Cumpián. His is a welcome voice in the chorus telling the essential story of the Latinx experience of home.”
—Booklist
“A study of crossing cultures written with affecting urgency.”
—Library Journal
“Many of these poems are remarkable for their dramatic tension, even as they reflect on ambitious questions of language, privilege, and power. . . .In this accomplished volume, language can be the ‘thick glass between us,’ impeding connection and understanding, but Torres’s writing offers a vision that is startling and far-reaching.”
—Publishers Weekly
“In his magnificent enumerations; his allegiances; his ordeals of self, figure, and desire, Michael Torres gives us an uncharted and ‘incomplete,’ ever-flaming matrix of being and becoming a brown man, a person in an unknown America. Incredible, truth-fisted, shattering, groundbreaking.”
—Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Imagine
“This spectacular collection of acutely conscious poems awakens readers to our universal need to belong. . . . He speaks to the constant naming and renaming of the self and others at the intersection of multiple identities and perceptions through an arresting voice that is provocative yet vulnerable, urban yet serene, mournful yet buoyant.”
—Richard Blanco, author of How to Love a Country
“With poems that drop like beads of acid on paper, sizzling away first impressions and assumptions, revealing in their burning wake the underlayer of truth, and how it, after years, still smarts and bleeds and blossoms in us. I love this book more than I have any other book in a long time . . . celebrating our duality, the multitudinous breadth and depth of our varied and bounteous humanity.”
—Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of A Place to Stand
“Absence doesn’t simply haunt Michael Torres’s poems: it blazes through them. . . . Torres is an exhilarating writer, a virtuoso who lets us hear what language can erase and create—while making it sing.”
—Mary Szybist, author of Incarnadine
Table Of Contents
Foreword by Raquel Salas Rivera
Doing Donuts in an ’87 Mustang 5.0, after My Homie Chris Gets Broken Up With
All-American Mexican
Hired as Professional Mourner at Funeral
The Pachuco’s Grandson Smokes His First Cigarette after Contemplating Masculinity
The Flame
Minutes, at the Health Clinic
Learning to Box
[Mexican] America
On Being REMEK
Down | I
Clothespins
Push
The Very Short Story of Your Knuckles
Teaching at the Prison in December
The Pachuco’s Grandson Considers Skipping School
Because My Brother Knows Why It’s Called County Blues, but Won’t Tell Me
After José Clemente Orozco’s Man of Fire
Down | II
[White] America
My Brother Is Asking for Stamps
All-American Mexican
Suspended from School, the Pachuco’s Grandson Watches Happy Days While His Homie Fulfills Prophecy
Stop Looking at My Last Name Like That
Down | III
After the Man Who Found Me Doing Burpees at the Park Said: “I Can Tell You Learned Those on the Inside.”
Ars Poetica
My Hometown as a Man Riding a Bicycle with No Chain
My Neighbor Who Keeps the Dying Things
Visits
Elegy with Puppet Strings
From My Classroom Window at the Prison, before Students Arrive
The Pachuco’s Grandson Considers the Silversun Pickups’ Album Diana Lent Him When They Last Spoke Seven Years Ago
1991
All-American Mexican
Elegy with Roll Call
Horses
Acknowledgments, Thank-Yous, and Shout-Outs
Notes
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