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Flamenco Hips and Red Mud Feet: Camino del Sol

Autor Dixie Salazar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2010
“Duality” is at the center of Flamenco Hips and Red Mud Feet, a striking collection of poems both intimate and grand. The poet, Dixie Salazar, has spent a lifetime forging her own identity out of two cultures: “On one side was my father’s world: Spanish speaking from las montañas. On the other side was my mother’s world: a deep Southern drawl wafting from the magnolia and chinaberry trees.” As her poems reveal, she is a product of both cultures but not completely at home in either one.

In the two sections of the book—“Inside” and “Outside”—parallelism and symmetry interact with themes both public and private. Flamenco Hips and Red Mud Feet presents thirty-nine poems in free verse and traditional poetic forms, especially the sonnet and adaptations of the sonnet. The sonnet—usually consisting of the octet (eight lines) that sets up the main idea of the poem and the sestet (six lines) that resolves, answers or completes the poem—is a natural form for a poet whose identity is divided. Double sonnets and “double-linked sonnets doubled” reflect the duality the poet feels inside her skin. And the poems written to and for a “lost sister” reinforce the theme.

Throughout this provocative book, Salazar navigates the alienation of her cultural in-between-ness. By the end, she appears to become more comfortable with her status of “outsider,” deciding that she doesn’t need to give in to pressures to pick a side or to accept others’ ideas of where her own “borders” begin or end.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780816528516
ISBN-10: 0816528519
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press
Seria Camino del Sol


Notă biografică

Dixie Salazar has published three books of poetry: Hotel Fresno, Reincarnation of the Commonplace (winner of the National Poetry Book Award), and Blood Mysteries (Arizona, 2003). She has also published a novel, Limbo, along with numerous poems and short stories in more than fifty literary journals, including The Missouri Review, Poetry International, and Ploughshares. Currently she shows oil paintings and collage work at the Silva/Salazar studios in Fresno. She has taught at California State University, Fresno, as well as in the California prisons and the Fresno County jail.

Cuprins

PART I. INSIDE
Half and Half
Subjunctive Mood
Spelling It Out
Stolen Names
No Wonder
You Could Say
Nothing Para Nada
Frost
Dancing with the Skeletons
Davy Crockett Meets Coronado
Cornbread y Caracoles en Cielo
Blue Waltz Perfume
Ode to My Imaginary Sister
You Were There
The Recipe
Beach Walking with the Stones

PART II. OUTSIDE
Cayucos Fog
Ode to a Boy at the Beach
America’s Most Wanted
Conductor’s Lament
Art Lesson with the Hearing-Impaired
Smoke Signals
Pruning Roses at Corcoran Prison
Virgin Behind Security Bars
Killdeer
Stellar Jay Sonnet
The Parrot at Emerald Thrift
Watching the Wizard of Oz on Spanish TV
Overtime at the Paul Revere Motel
Muscatel Sonnet
3-D Jesus
Fiber-optic Angel
Jesus Loves You at the Venus Beauty Salon—Fifth Avenue, Fresno
Fixed Income Sonnet
Yard Sale in the Fog
Dusty Footsteps
What’s Amazing about Grace
The Pull
Long Ago the Same