The Yearning Feed The Yearning Feed
    • $15.99

Publisher Description

The poems in Manuel Paul López's The Yearning Feed, winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, are embedded in the San Diego/Imperial Valley regions, communities located along the U.S.-Mexico border. López, an Imperial Valley native, considers La Frontera, or the border, as magical, worthy of Macondo-like comparisons, where contradictions are firmly rooted and ironies play out on a daily basis. These poems synthesize López’s knowledge of modern and contemporary literature with a border-child vernacular sensibility to produce a work that illustrates the ongoing geographical and literary historical clash of cultures.

With humor and lyrical intensity, López addresses familial relationships, immigration, substance abuse, violence, and, most importantly, the affirmation of life. In the poem titled "Psalm," the speaker experiences a deep yearning to relearn his family's Spanish tongue, a language lost somewhere in the twelve-mile stretch between his family's home, his school, and the border. The poem “1984” borrows the prose-poetics of Joe Brainard, who was known for his collage and assemblage work of the 1960s and 1970s, to describe the poet’s bicultural upbringing in the mid-1980s. Many of the poems in The Yearning Feed use a variety of media, techniques, and cultural signifiers to create a hybrid visual language that melds “high” art with "low." The poems in The Yearning Feed establish López as a singular and revelatory voice in American poetry, one who challenges popular perceptions of the border region and uses the unique elements of the rich border experience to inform and guide his aesthetics.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
August 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
136
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Notre Dame Press
SELLER
Ingram DV LLC
SIZE
661.3
KB
Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife
2012
An Apple in My Back An Apple in My Back
2001
Microfiction Microfiction
2023
Orgasmo Orgasmo
2013
Down the Road to Eternity Down the Road to Eternity
2013
Bat Flower: Poems, Plays & Other Perversions Bat Flower: Poems, Plays & Other Perversions
2019
Auto/Body Auto/Body
2023
Magnificent Errors Magnificent Errors
2022
Among Ruins Among Ruins
2017