Post Traumatic Hood Disorder

Martinez, David Tomas

ISBN 10: 1946448095 / ISBN 13: 9781946448095

Published by Sarabande Books, Incorporated, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Post Traumatic Hood Disorder
• Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1946448095
• ISBN 13: 9781946448095
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.353 pounds

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Synopsis

"One of the most exciting and visceral poets of his generation."―Tony Hoagland

"Look at homie on the beach picking shells in dress shoes," David Tomas Martinez writes in his raw, electrifying second collection. In his debut, Hustle, Martinez offered a kaleidoscopic coming-of-age narrative replete with teen shootings and car-jackings, uncertain forays into sex, and the ongoing violence of colonialism upon Latino communities in San Diego. Emerging from the fray, the poet is left to wonder: Who am I now? In Post Traumatic Hood Disorder, the speaker assembles a bricolage self-portrait from the fractures of the past. Sliding between scholarly diction and slangy vernacular, studded with references to Greek mythology and hip-hop, Martinez's poems showcase a versatility of language and a wild-hearted poetic energy that is thoughtful, vulnerable, and distinctly American.

David Tomas Martinez is a recipient of a 2017 NEA fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Verlaine Poetry Prize, a CantoMundo fellowship, and the Stanley P. Young Fellowship from Breadloaf. His debut collection of poetry, Hustle (2014, Sarabande Books) received the New England Book Festival's prize in poetry, the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and $10,000 as honorable mention from the Antonio Cisneros Del Moral Prize. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, Tin House, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Martinez lives in Brooklyn, NY.

About the Author

David Tomas Martinez is a CantoMundo fellow and recipient of a 2017 NEA fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Verlaine Poetry Prize, and the Stanley P. Young Fellowship from Breadloaf. His debut collection of poetry, Hustle (2014, Sarabande Books) received the New England Book Festival's prize in poetry, the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and $10,000 as honorable mention from the Antonio Cisneros Del Moral Prize. Martinez lives in Brooklyn.