Machete: Poems by Tomás Q. Morín
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Overview: This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts.
“Morín’s writing uses the mundane details of everyday life . . . as a jumping off point for creating fascinating and philosophical worlds.” LitHub
“Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca” (“God squeezes, but He doesn’t strangle”) the epigraph of Machete sets the stage for a powerful poet who summons a variety of ways to endure life when there’s an invisible hand at your throat. Tomás Morín hails from the coastal plains of Texas, and explores a world where identity and place shift like that ever changing shore.
In these poems, culture crashes like waves and leaves behind Billie Holiday and the CIA, disco balls and Dante, the Bible and Jerry Maguire. They are long, lean, and dazzle in their telling: “Whiteface” is a list of instructions for people stopped by the police; “Duct Tape” lauds our domestic life from the point of view of the tape itself.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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