{"product_id":"flamenco-hips-and-red-mud-dixie-salazar-9780816528516","title":"Flamenco Hips and Red Mud Feet","description":"\"Duality\" is at the center of \u003ci\u003eFlamenco Hips and Red Mud Feet\u003c\/i\u003e, a striking collection of poems both intimate and grand. The poet, Dixie Salazar, has spent a lifetime forging her own identity out of two cultures: \"On one side was my father's world: Spanish speaking from las montañas. On the other side was my mother's world: a deep Southern drawl wafting from the magnolia and chinaberry trees.\" As her poems reveal, she is a product of both cultures but not completely at home in either one. \u003cbr\u003e In the two sections of the book--\"Inside\" and \"Outside\"--parallelism and symmetry interact with themes both public and private. \u003ci\u003eFlamenco Hips and Red Mud Feet\u003c\/i\u003e presents thirty-nine poems in free verse and traditional poetic forms, especially the sonnet and adaptations of the sonnet. The sonnet--usually consisting of the octet (eight lines) that sets up the main idea of the poem and the sestet (six lines) that resolves, answers or completes the poem--is a natural form for a poet whose identity is divided. Double sonnets and \"double-linked sonnets doubled\" reflect the duality the poet feels inside her skin. And the poems written to and for a \"lost sister\" reinforce the theme. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout this provocative book, Salazar navigates the alienation of her cultural in-between-ness. By the end, she appears to become more comfortable with her status of \"outsider,\" deciding that she doesn't need to give in to pressures to pick a side or to accept others' ideas of where her own \"borders\" begin or end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dixie Salazar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816528519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816528516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.66h x 5.48w x 0.31d","brand":"Dixie Salazar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112975479039,"sku":"9780816528516","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_caa54369-a271-4232-b6a6-e2b834b4277f.jpg?v=1769612216","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flamenco-hips-and-red-mud-dixie-salazar-9780816528516","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}