Citizen illegal
Subtitle: poems
By: José Olivarez
Series: BreakBeat poets series; BreakBeat poets series
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
ISBN-13: 9781608469543; 9781608465231
Subjects: Mexican Americans; Immigrants; Poetry; American poetry
Description: "In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the story, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, and gentrifying barrios. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between."--