José Olivarez
Autore di Citizen Illegal (BreakBeat Poets)
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Author José Olivarez at the 2019 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83519605
Opere di José Olivarez
Home Court: Poems 1 copia
Opere correlate
Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience (2019) — Collaboratore — 68 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 20th century
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Calumet City, Illinois, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 269
- Popolarità
- #85,899
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 14
This book left me with more questions than anything. The author is quite adamant that he is Mexican, and I wonder how his relatives who have spent their lives living in Mexico would feel about that--do they consider him Mexican, or American, or Mexican-American? Perhaps he is a DACA recipient and is trapped between, unable to live as either a Mexican or as an American. He does not say, though I also understand why he might not want to announce that to the world in the Trump era (because we are no post-Trump, he is still out there causing trouble and hating).
I spent an embarrassing amount of this book thinking Cal City was the desert city California City. Finally I googled when I realized he was in Chicago. And that Calumet City is right next to Dolton, where my grandfather was born and raised. On page 71, "Wherever I'm at That Land is Chicago" says "all the steel mills shuttering up like conquered forts. one day, there will be an urban tour through South Chicago". It sounds like not much has changed in the last 100 years. Those mills were shuttering/shuttered in the 1930s too, my grandfather worked at one, and my grandparents fled to California in 1936 because there was no more work in Chicago. And thus I exist.… (altro)