Shadowboxing : Poems & Impersonations, Paperback by Rios, Joseph, Like New Us...-image

Shadowboxing : Poems & Impersonations, Paperback by Rios, Joseph, Like New Us...

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Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing Item Height: 0.4 in height: 0.4 in Item Weight: 6.1 Oz Topic: General, American / Hispanic American Item Length: 9 in width: 6 in Book Title: Shadowboxing : Poems and Impersonations Item Width: 6 in Format: Trade Paperback Publication Year: 2017 ISBN: 9781632430434 Language: English Number of Pages: 88 Pages Genre: Poetry Author: Joseph Rios

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Shadowboxing : Poems & Impersonations, Paperback by Rios, Joseph, Like New Us.... Shadowboxing : Poems & Impersonations, Paperback by Rios, Joseph, ISBN 1632430436, ISBN-13 9781632430434, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.

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