Mixology

by Adrian Matejka and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin Young

The poems in Adrian Matejka's second collection, Mixology, shapeshift through the myriad meanings of "mixing" to explore and explode ideas of race, skin politics, appropriation, and cultural identity. Whether the focus of the individual poems is musical, digital, or historical, the otherness implicit in being of more than one racial background guides Matejka's work to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143115839
• ISBN13: 9780143115830
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher