The Codex Mojaodicus (Paperback)

Paperback. The Codex Mojaodicus collects three novels-in-verse --"My Sweet Conquistador," "Chaley Way," and "The Pocho Codex" -- all of which mine, mime, record and disgorge the impressions and dissertations of language as it is uttered, stuttered, and felt in a variety of tongues and heads. In these theatrical poems, Alvarez documents a multilingual field, tracing a Xicano genome over and above An ambitious project in which Alvarez sets out to catalog the many intersections of Spanish and English in Louisville, Kentucky. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.