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Frozen Accident: Poems
Alfred Arteaga
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Description for Frozen Accident: Poems
Paperback. A young man witnessed his father's murder in a power play that unintentionally enabled the Aztecs to establish an empire. The young man, Nezahualcoyotl, became the philosopher king of Texcoco and wrote the most famous poem of pre-conquest Americas, "Song of Flight." This work is a long poem and, echoing Dante, it also narrates a trip to hell. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 95.
Frozen Accident is a long poem and, echoing Dante, its primary section ""Nezahualcoyotl in Mictlan"" narrates a trip to hell. Yet, Mictlan is not quite the Inferno. For Alfred Arteaga, the place of the dead is California, the last stop for Western culture, the final limit of its reach. The West's poets and philosophers have long declared history over, god dead, and that what remains is merely the house of language. In other words, all is but frozen accident. If the endpoint is California, the poem's point of departure is an assassination that radically shaped history. A young man witnessed ... Read more
Frozen Accident is a long poem and, echoing Dante, its primary section ""Nezahualcoyotl in Mictlan"" narrates a trip to hell. Yet, Mictlan is not quite the Inferno. For Alfred Arteaga, the place of the dead is California, the last stop for Western culture, the final limit of its reach. The West's poets and philosophers have long declared history over, god dead, and that what remains is merely the house of language. In other words, all is but frozen accident. If the endpoint is California, the poem's point of departure is an assassination that radically shaped history. A young man witnessed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Tia Chucha
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781882688326
SKU
V9781882688326
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About Alfred Arteaga
Alfred Arteaga is a professor of Chicano studies at University of California, Berkeley. His books of poetry include Cantos (Chusma House Publications, 1991), Red (Bilingual Review Press, 2000), and the chapbook Love in the Time of Aftershocks (Chusma House Publications and Moving Parts Press, 1998). He is also the author of a memoir House with the Blue Bed (Mercury House, ... Read more
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