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Citizen Illegal (Hardcover)
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Citizen Illegal (Hardcover)
Series: BreakBeat Poets
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"Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and
searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity
of the people who built it." -Eve Ewing, author of Electric Arches
In this stunning debut, poet Jose Olivarez explores the stories,
contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces
between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids,
bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills,
gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich
traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and
Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the
in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force,
Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class,
and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader
in. Olivarez has a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch.
Jose Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. He is a co-host of
the podcast, The Poetry Gods. A winner of fellowships from Poets
House, The Bronx Council On The Arts, The Poetry Foundation, and
The Conversation Literary Festival, his work has been published in
The BreakBeat Poets and elsewhere. He is the Marketing Manager at
Young Chicago Authors.
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