Chopper! Chopper! reflects the lives of Mexican Americans, immigrants, Chicanas/os, and la jotería-malfloras, jotos, and beautiful rainbow communities. As vividly as Mexican Technicolor, these poems capture life in the barrio: vendors hauling carts with elote, raspados, botes y más. Vatos fighting to exist. Mujeres claiming space. Summer evenings, children playing in the calles of East L.A., El Paso, and bordered tierras everywhere. Reyes's work exudes the pride, strength, turmoil and struggle of neighborhoods brimming with tradition and invention, estilo a la brava. These homegrown verses reveal the barrio in all its intricate layers. Revering difference, they fight to make room for something new: Marimacha Poetry. ¡Y Qué!
Awards
Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2014.



Book Information
ISBN 9780989036108
Author Veronica Reyes
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Arktoi Books
Publisher Red Hen Press
Weight(grams) 213g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 177mm * 9mm