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    Aztec Autopsies: & Mariachi Murals
    Aztec Autopsies: & Mariachi Murals
    Aztec Autopsies: & Mariachi Murals
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    Aztec Autopsies: & Mariachi Murals

    By David Gershator

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    David Gershator visits and re-visits Mexico in poems ranging from headline grabbing news clips to lyrical love poems, from fiery fulminations to hallucinatory visions. As translator/editor of Federico García Lorca’s SELECTED LETTERS and student of the poet’s brother, Francisco García Lorca, he takes cues from Lorca’s experiments in POETA EN NUEVA YORK; from countless rancheras and corridos; from the historical continuity of myth, madness, politics and pain; and from Inga Clendinnen’s description of “Mexica aesthetics” in her book AZTECS: AN INTERPRETATION, as operating “through a kind of surrealism achieved by dislocation.” The 100 page collection includes a glossary and 17 pen and ink drawings by the poet.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 15, 2014
    ISBN9781631921575
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      Book preview

      Aztec Autopsies - David Gershator

      Text and art copyright © 2014 by David Gershator

      Cover art by David Gershator

      The following poems have appeared previously, with variants: Passion for Guadalupe, Flower of Texcoco, Dog Bones, Museum of Multiple Exposures in Home Planet News; Whirlwind in Big Hammer; Coatlicue and Running After Strange Gods in Caught in the Net.

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      ISBN: 9781631921575

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      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Wire

      Shape Shifter

      Reflection

      Rebirth

      Multiple Exposure

      Crucifixion

      Brainstorm

      Jarabe

      Goddess

      Warrior

      Fallen Angels

      Blind Singer

      Bones

      Sacrifice

      Butterfly Belly

      Horse & Rider

      Bouquet

      CONTENTS

      Interview

      Passion for Guadalupe

      Bigamist

      Teotihuacán

      Portrait

      La Llorona

      Lullaby for Bare Light Bulbs

      Knowledge Unknown

      Singing a Different Tune

      Witnesses

      The Last Straw

      Beds of Salt and Feathers

      Contemporary Mirror

      Whirlwind

      Museum of Multiple Exposures

      At the Cathedral Pyramids of Holy Excavation

      Aztec Cocktail

      Virgin Mural

      Hypodermic Copulations

      Subject to Recall

      Hallucination

      La Lotería

      Narcotic Nocturne

      Pretty Ladies with Machine Guns

      Guelaguetza

      Writing the Storm

      Thin Line Mural

      Coatlicue

      Running After Strange Gods

      Interrogating Tonatiuh

      Riding the Rims

      Mural Demanding a Wall

      Mural for all Occasions

      Bought and Sold

      Prophet of the Here and Now

      Dog Bones

      Bald Buddha of Teotihuacán

      Monte Albán

      Slow Mail Express

      Road Runner

      Politics Without a Leg to Stand On

      Bullfighters’ Strike

      Sacrifice

      Cuauhtémoc! The Movie

      Quetzalcoatl’s Cousin

      Palacio de Bellas Artes

      Static

      Luz

      In Praise of Violent Air

      Cut Off

      Flower of Texcoco

      Glossary

      About the Author

      Wire

      Mexica ‘aesthetics’...

      operated through a kind of surrealism achieved by dislocation...

      ––Inga Clendinnen

      Aztecs: An Interpretation

      Truthful words are not beautiful.

      Beautiful words are not truthful.

      ––Lao-Tzu

      Tao Te Ching

      INTERVIEW

      Why do you scribble?

      to freeze cremated hummingbirds

      to reveal the night to the night

      the thorn to the thorn

      the snake to the snake

      to inoculate myself with the fangs of choice

      to curse and bless

      to hiss at rattlesnakes

      to commiserate with a line of ants

      before the day’s first funeral

      arrives at my door

      What are you raving about?

      gods eaten by their own menus

      Aztec lipstick overrun by insects

      the anatomy of flutes

      plazas filled with reasons to go blind

      ransoms paid to taxi executioners

      and everywhere soap operas

      and the furious sleep of hair roots

      surprising riots among

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