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41. Americana-lcd
(Correa-Díaz, Luis)
978-1-951370-13-8
Written in the extraordinary circumstances of 2020, a year of rekoning, in Americana-lcd Luis Correa-Díaz casts an original and distinctly postmodern light on this country. A heady cocktail of poetry in Spanish contemplates America from the Founding Fathers to the recent presidential inauguration, evoking along the way Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, the assassination of MLK and the Vietnam War. King Alfonso X the Wise looks Elvis and Marilyn in the eye, and together they sing with the Beat poets and the Avengers. Snippets of the poems dance with screen shots from Correa-Díaz’s Iphone, recontextualizing the texts they are drawn from. And Pavel Ortega’s drawings, more than illustrate, dialogue with each of the poems, offering a new and original understanding of them, and making for that very reason Correa Díaz’s book the equivalent of a graphic novel in verse. This is poetry that speaks powerfully to us about today, and in so doing transcends the moment and will be just as meaningful tomorrow.
Anthony Geist
Author Luis Correa-Díaz
ISBN 978-1-951370-13-8
Pages 186
Format Paperback
In stock
BLUES
blues, nothing but blues,
blues always blues, John
Lee Hooker, for
one, worshiping
another, Big Mamma
Thornton, in them the blues
and in those who embody
our most recondite song and
which is the pain of living,
root blossomed into spirituals,
work songs, in stories
with feelings being reborn
over the rocky landscape
of the cities, blues
from the Deep South, venero
of our oblivions, melisma
of the aracial singing of tomorrow