Mixology
Author: Matejka, Adrian
ISBN: 9780143115830
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 26 May 2009
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin Young/b>br>br> The poems in Adrian Matejka's second collection, i>Mixology/i>, 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-are parts of the whole.
ISBN: 9780143115830
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 26 May 2009
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin Young/b>br>br> The poems in Adrian Matejka's second collection, i>Mixology/i>, 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-are parts of the whole.
