Bad Alchemy: Poems

By Dionisio D. Martinez

Book Overview

In this exuberant and distinctive collection, Dionisio Mart?nez addresses topics as diverse as love, the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, twentieth-century art and music, and the relevance of language in an age of image.

Much of Mart?nez's private iconography comes from the picket-fence California community of his youth, in which large events--from the veneration of pop icons (Jean Harlow, Ed Sullivan) to the Vietnam War--seemed to move in slow motion. As an adult, the poet tries to make sense of what the child could not grasp.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393315312
• ISBN13: 9780393315318
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"