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Calaca Press, 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). With publisher's prospectus laid in. Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. MAHCIC is part celebration, part lament, part conclusion, part beginning--bilingual sound bombing taken straight from the love of a father for his son and a poet for his people. A controlled lyricism drives the collection through movements of political awareness and spiritual awakening while swaying to the rhythms of hip hop, jazz and ceremonia. Engaged with the world and connected intimately with the hope that emerges from pain these verses draw you in then send you off to action. "Tomas Riley's poems are the necessary documents we must carry to insure the safe crossing, the guide by the hand, the finger to the lip, poetry becomes a paint by numbers game of language, truth and funk. His gaze takes us across streets as he crosses himself at the corner of 24th and la Misi[n, more like the intersection of…
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- Title Mahcic
- Author Tomas Riley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1ST
- Pages 104
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Calaca Press
- Date January 2005
- ISBN 9780971703544 / 097170354X
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.812
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National City [CA]: Calaca Press, 2005. 1st ed. Paperback. Very good(+) to near fine(-); slight bump to bottom corner front. Octavo green; viii, 85 pages: illustrations; 22 cm. Author inscribed Contents: Part I: Prelude to a beatdown.Two o'clock park jams -- Gray grease -- Nada -- The low end -- The urban village -- Part 2: Running in place. Emerald Hills -- Colonia libertad -- Shelltown -- Barrio Logan -- Encanto -- Plaza Boulevard -- Escondido -- Imperial Beach (i. Boys go missing, ii. Border Field State Park) -- East Village West -- The Mission -- Part 3: The movement variations on a scheme. The movement freestyles for the dying sun -- Mission redux -- Cuando Ganamos -- Part 4: Mahcic: Mexipino genealogy. Grandma Pearl's humming song -- Grandpa floating halfway home -- After telegram day -- She had to -- Good neighbors -- My brother's name -- They told us we needed Jesus -- Removing his body -- Remembering the family portrait -- You didn't come gently -- This is what it be like -- An answer.…
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