Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut

By Vickie Vértiz

Book Overview

Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut uses both humor and sincerity to capture moments in time with a sense of compassion for the hard choices we must make to survive. V rtiz's poetry shows how history, oppression, and resistance don't just refer to big events or movements; they play out in our everyday lives, in the intimate spaces of family, sex, and neighborhood. V rtiz's poems ask us to see Los Angeles--and all cities like it--as they have always been: an America of code-switching and reinvention, of lyric and fight.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816535116
• ISBN13: 9780816535118
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"