A Grave Is Given Supper

By Mike Soto

Book Overview

A Narco-Acid Western told in a series of interlinked poems, Soto's striking debut collection follows the converging paths of two protagonists through El Sumidero, a fictional US/Mexico border town where an ongoing drug war is raging. The surreal verse of Soto's poems portrays a bleak political climate as it coincides with the rituals of love & loss, culture & spirituality, & the quest for a better life at all costs. Following the narrative arc of Alejandro Jodorowsky's classic cult film, El Topo, A Grave is Given Supper builds a world saturated with a mystical aura that describes the finite tensions & complicated desires of lives taking place in the borderland.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164605010X
• ISBN13: 9781646050109
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.9"