{"product_id":"museum-of-the-americas-paperback","title":"Museum of the Americas - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. Michael Martinez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, \u003ci\u003eMuseum of the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how \"knowledge\" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. \u003ci\u003eMuseum of the Americas'\u003c\/i\u003e poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at St. Lawrence University, J. Michael lives in upstate NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377589477683,"sku":"9780143133445","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/E-QmXx0zNr9780143133445.webp?v=1779325942","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/museum-of-the-americas-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}