Frozen Accident: Poems

by Alfred Arteaga and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882688325
• ISBN13: 9781882688326
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Tia Chucha
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"