Mixology

Matejka, Adrian

ISBN 10: 0143115839 / ISBN 13: 9780143115830

Published by Penguin Books, New York, 2009

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Signed and inscribed by Matejka with a quote from Martin Espada. Creasing to the bottom corners. ; 80 pages; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mixology
• Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143115839
• ISBN 13: 9780143115830
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

• Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin Young
• Finalist for the 2010 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature -- Poetry

The poems in Adrian Matejka's second collection, Mixology, shapeshift through the myriad meanings of "mixing" to explore and explode ideas of race, skin politics, appropriation, and cultural identity. Whether the focus of the individual poems is musical, digital, or historical, the otherness implicit in being of more than one racial background guides Matejka's work to the inevitable conclusion that all things-no matter how disparate-are parts of the whole.

About the Author

Adrian Matejka is a graduate of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale MFA program. The author of The Devil's Garden and The Big Smoke, his work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He teaches creative writing and English literature at Indiana University in Bloomington.