The Pocho Codex: Piercing an Amurkan Poetic Historiagraphy

By Steven Alvarez

The Chicano Stephen Dedalus slouches his way through love, lust, and poetry in this whimsical novel in verse. Chaley Chastitellez leads Xochitl Flores on an adulterous love escapade that ends in tragedy for Chaley, and ultimately for Xochitl. We follow the couple from interwoven episodes of their brief involvements and their days on earth together, and also life after Chaley's death in and roves deeper into McTl?n. Along the way the complex socio-historical relations between Mexico and the United States also come to structure the development of the story behind the meaning of pocho/macho conquests. Told in unconventional prose and poetry, the novel pushes the borders of genres and narrative traditions of the Americas. It experiments with narrative effects and poetics to weave mythical and real times and spaces into a mixed artifact of language and sculpture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615545912
• ISBN13: 9780615545912
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Editorial Paroxismo
• Length: 119 Pages