{"product_id":"9781946724731","title":"Bad Mexican, Bad American : Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz showcases the unique style that has made him a rising star in the poetry community.    In Bad Mexican, Bad American, the minimalist, working-class aesthetic of a \"disadvantaged Brown kid\" takes wing in prose poems that recall and celebrate that form's ties to Surrealism. With influences like Alberto R�os and Ray Gonzalez on one hand, and James Tate and Charles Baudelaire on the other, the collection spectacularly combines \"high\" art and folk art in a way that collapses those distinctions, as in the poem \"My Date with Frida Kahlo\": \"Frida and I had Cuban coffee and then vegetarian tacos. We sipped on mescal and black tea. At the end of the night, following an�awkward silence during a conversation on Cubism, we kissed for about thirty minutes beneath a protest mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros.\"Bad Mexican, Bad American demonstrates how having roots in more than one culture can be both unsettling and rich: van Gogh and Beethoven share the page with tattoos, graffiti, and rancheras; Quetzalcoatl shows up at Panda Express; a Mexican American child who has never had a Mexican American teacher may become that teacher; a parent's \"broken\" English is beautiful and masterful. Blending reality with dream and humility with hope, Hernandez Diaz contributes a singing strand to the complex cultural weave that is twenty-first-century poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45469533995229,"sku":"9781946724731","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781946724731.jpg?v=1720171175","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781946724731","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}