Devil's Garden

Name: Devil's Garden
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ISBN: 9781882295418

ISBN-10: 1882295412

ISBN-13: 9781882295418

Edition: 2003

Authors: Adrian Matejka

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Using musical allusion and metaphor, juxtaposing history and autobiography, Matejka navigates a triracial identity. In these poems, having too many heritages means having no heritage at all. As a result, cultural identifiers-be they afros, war paint, or William Shatner-take the place of identity. Vibrant narrative lyrics use image as riff, syllable as note, to improvise on a personal history severed from tradition. Betwixt and Between Miscegenation's capitol is the mule. Not quite horse, almost donkey. No useful erection to speak of. In any unnatural concoction, somebody's got to take the blame. Freud would say credit the mother if props are necessary. Mulattos are human…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Alice James Books
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Adrian Matejkais a graduate of the Southern Illinois University MFA program. The author of The Devils Garden, his work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Crab Orchard Review, and Prairie Schooner. He teaches creative writing and English Literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.






Autobiography as Language


English B


Want


Crap Shoot


Paris, Texas (1954)


To Have This


The History of Bad Luck


The Devil's Garden


The Meaning of Rpms


Ode to Eddie Hazel


Obligatory Mingus


Earth Will Seduce You


Her Gardens





Pigment


Conjugating Opposites


The Official Story


Me in The Garden of Music


Ankle-Deep in Ocean


Home Remedies


What He Wanted to Say


Preacher (1942)


Genealogy of Insomnia


For What It's Worth


Integration


Eight Positions Mistaken as Love





Understanding Al Green


Contrafact (of an Ars Poetica)


Betwixt and Between


To the Miscarried Child


Con Leche


Miles Runs the Voodoo Down


Insect Precipitate and Saltwater


Klimt in Chicago


Government Magic


Memento


White Pages


Peace and Soul


Vinyl


Visions of Max Roach


Postlude


Notes