Description
My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poems from Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize-winner Paul Martínez Pompa. With a unique, independent voice, Martínez Pompa interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones, who range from the usual suspects brutalized by police to factory workers poisoned by their environment, from the victim of a homophobic beating in the boys' bathroom to the body of Juan Doe at the Cook County Coroner's Office. Some of the poems rely on somber, at times brutal, imagery to articulate a political stance while others use sarcasm and irony to deconstruct political stances themselves.
Author: Paul Martínez Pompa
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 09/30/2022
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d
ISBN13: 9780268206611
ISBN10: 0268206619
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | Hispanic & Latino
- Social Science | Discrimination
- Literary Criticism | American | Hispanic & Latino
About the Author
Paul Martínez Pompa teaches composition and creative writing at Triton College in River Grove, Illinois. His chapbook Pepper Spray was published in 2006.