{"product_id":"tarta-americana-j-michael-martinez-9780143137115","title":"Tarta Americana","description":"\u003cb\u003eA suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRagged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, \u003ci\u003eTarta Americana\u003c\/i\u003e lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories. Against the recent tide of white nationalism in the United States, \u003ci\u003eTarta Americana\u003c\/i\u003e finds a rhinestone in Ritchie Valens, the rock and roll legend, surfacing across time and bodies, genders and sounds, displacing the linear unfolding of desire and biography. Valens, the embodiment of corporeal transcendence, guides Martinez as he expresses his own neurodiversity, his struggles and triumphs, interrogating memory, gender, and race, traversing pain in search of compassion and joy. \u003ci\u003eTarta Americana\u003c\/i\u003e, tarred and glittering, melodic in its screams, overdrives text and space in chase of American politics that could, at last, harmonize love with redemption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Michael Martinez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143137115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143137115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/18\/2023","brand":"J. Michael Martinez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138521592063,"sku":"9780143137115","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df8ec94c-43e9-4de2-bb62-0edeff9cf600.jpg?v=1687900115","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tarta-americana-j-michael-martinez-9780143137115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}