Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations by Rios, Joseph

Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781632430434)

Vendor: Joseph Rios
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations by Rios, Joseph

Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations

$17.95
Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations by Rios, Joseph

Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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Borrowing the poetic language found in boxing lore and in the Rocky films, Shadowboxing pieces together a poetic portrait of Josefo, a Chicano adolescent working and becoming a poet in the farm territories of Central California. Rios confounds the relationship between author, speaker, and subject within various forms and, at times, across genre. He challenges the usefulness of poetry and stands upon oral histories to demystify California's overlooked labor class. Rios invites the reader to enter Josefo's world of memory, experience, and talk, of packinghouse mentors, storytelling grandmothers, parable-sharing plumbers, smooth talking truck drivers, and infinitely patient literature professors.

Author: Joseph Rios
ISBN-10: 1632430436
ISBN-13: 9781632430434
Publisher: Omnidawn
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/18/2017
Library Journal 11/15/2017
By Joseph Rios
By Joseph Rios
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JOSEPH RIOS was born in Clovis, California. He is a VONA alumnus, a Macondo fellow, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Los Angeles.

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