Mixology
$51.99
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2009
Summary
Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin YoungThe poems in Adrian Matejka’s second collection, Mixology, shapeshift through the myriad meanings of “mixing” to explore and explode ideas of race, skin politics, appropriation, and cultural identity. Whether the focus of the individual poems is musical, digital, or historical, the otherness implicit in being of more than one racial background guides Matejka’s work to the inevitable conclusion that all things-no matter how disparate-a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143115830 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143115839 |
| Author: | Adrian Matejka |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2009 |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 140mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
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Critics Review
” Adrian Matejka provides a profound and powerful cocktail of personal history, hip hop elegy, and inventive language, measuring a clash of emotions and cultures with fat bass lines and sharp wit. A post-soul tour de force that places pop culture in a blender.”
-Kevin Young, 2008 National Poetry Series judge
About The Author
Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka’s most recent collection of poetry is Somebody Else Sold the World. His other books are Map to the Stars; The Big Smoke, which was the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a finalist for both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize; Mixology, which was selected for the National Poetry Series; and The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003), winner of the New York / New England Award. Among Matejka’s other honors are fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He served as Poet Laureate of the state of Indiana in 2018-19 and lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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