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Why I Am Like Tequila - by Lupe Mendez (Paperback)

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  • Poetry collection by Lupe Mendez, poet, teacher and activist.
  • Author(s): Lupe Mendez
  • 102 Pages
  • Poetry, American

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About the Book



Poetry collection by Lupe Mendez, poet, teacher and activist.



Book Synopsis



Poetry collection by Lupe Mendez, poet, teacher and activist. Why I Am Like Tequila is a collection of poetry spanning a decade of writing and performance. This collection exists in 4 parts - each a layered perspective, a look through a Mexican/ Mexican-American voice living in the Texas Gulf Coast. Set within spaces such as Galveston Island, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley and Jalisco, Mexico, these poems peel away at all parts, like the maguey, drawing to craft spirits, quenching a thirst between land and sea.



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Why I Am Like Tequila is one of the most exciting books to come out in years. Mendez takes us on a wild ride from birth, to family, to community, with a master's control of language and with gritos that sing and yawp and cry from the rooftops of the Americas. Unpredictable, imaginative, necessary, these poems introduce us to an important new poet for our generation.

--Daniel Chacón, Author of Hotel Juarez

Why I Am Like Tequila is all "beautiful blue / maguey veins" stretching along the Gulf Coast, where borderlands and littorals meet. Indigenous Tejanx consciousness digs deep beneath the dystopian headlines (hurricanes, immigration officers) and finds "a million interconnected howls," in raw, cleansing songs about fathers, elders, lovers, neighbors, and children (the only, the never born, the never dead). Against Keats, Lupe Méndez seeks out a translingual beauty-truth ("inside I wanted el toque de luz") and insists on those untranslatable moments "when tongue slurs" and language "jettisons / out into the gulf." From found poetry to a Spanish pantoum, Méndez's writing performs "the act of island" where "I hold myself against this want" and we "dig dance move" with him. This is poetry about the contradictions of contemporary Brown masculinity and its discontents, about our island-cities and their archipelagos, about the blessings and curses of familia; in other words, urgent reading. With its heart of agave ("Mi corazón es un mezontle"), this book is firmly rooted in an expanded frontera, full of love and libations for our Américas.

--Urayoán Noel, Author of Buzzing Hemispheres/Rumor Hemisférico


Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .24 Inches (D)
Weight: .35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 102
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Willow Publishing
Theme: Hispanic American
Format: Paperback
Author: Lupe Mendez
Language: English
Street Date: May 5, 2019
TCIN: 1001810097
UPC: 9781732209176
Item Number (DPCI): 247-44-3631
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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