Tortured Barrio Songs
FlowerSong Books
ISBN13:
9781733809238
$24.41
Tortured Barrio Songs is really not one book, but a Trinity of three books, each tied to and adding to the understanding of the others. Cárdenas brings to bear, once again, his signature no-holds-barred humor, crossed with a stinging criticism of the injustices of being poor in America, something reflected sharply in all three of the works. Andrés Sobaco, El Numbnuts, a flowing and painfully beautiful novel-in-verse set in the West Side barrios of San Antonio; El Ocho Patas, a darker, more philosophical and metaphorical tale of the man with eight legs; and Canciones Desesperadas, a collection of poems unveiling the formative root experiences of the poet and other real people in his Vonnegut-style karass of a barrio, together make a book both irreverent and yet somehow filled with respeto for life and the universe. The tender sacrileges with which he addresses God, or Christ, or La Llorona, remind us of a man whose tragedies have been so crushing that the hope within him has become even more persistent, and even more resilient.
- | Author: Reyes Cardenas
- | Publisher: Flowersong Books
- | Publication Date: May 25, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 312 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1733809236
- | ISBN-13: 9781733809238
- Author:
- Reyes Cardenas
- Publisher:
- Flowersong Books
- Publication Date:
- May 25, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 312 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1733809236
- ISBN-13:
- 9781733809238