The Yearning Feed

The poems in Manuel Paul López's The Yearning Feed, winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize in...
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Author: Manuel Paul López
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The Yearning Feed by López, Manuel Paul

The Yearning Feed

$45.30

The Yearning Feed

$45.30
Author: Manuel Paul López
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Manuel Paul López
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 08/28/2013
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780268033897

About the Author

Manuel Paul López is a Canto Mundo fellow, and his work has been published in Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe, ZYZZYVA, Hanging Loose, and Rattle, among others, and anthologized in Roque Dalton Redux. He is the author of Death of a Mexican and Other Poems, which was awarded the Dorothy Brunsman Prize.


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