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lyrical procedures of selfimmolation, this brave new collection by J, Michael Martinez interrogates the sundry roles language, myth, and sexuality play for the self and the other in the recoverable and irrecoverable past,  Parallel to his awardwinning first collection Heredities, J, Michael Martinez pushes the boundaries of poetic form, wedding historically oppositional lyrical traditions to deliver a collection unlike any other,

Turning the page into a visual field, as in the deconstructed musical score telling the tale of La Llorona, In the Garden of the Bridehouse questions the line between visual art and poetry.
The work employs the vernacular, the stylized language of theory, and the blank canvas of the page in its exploration of the known and unknowable,

Throughout the work, Martinez paradoxically exercises both a lyrical minimalism and a baroque poetic, uniting Mesoamerican preconquest imaginary with the sensuality of the Biblical Song of Songs, cultivating a lyrical space wherein contrasting potentials areas onerealized in their shared promise.
Oh but come on now, To steal words from Annie Dillard, “this is the big time here, Every minute of it. ” Nowhere in this volume is it even suggested that the author feels similarly, A Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project, J, Michael Martinez received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for his first book, Heredities, In the Garden of the Bridehouse, is available from the University of Arizona Press,

His third collection, Museum of the Americas, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Cornelius Eady and is published by Penguin Press, J. Michaels next work, “Tarta Americana” will be published by Penguin September of, An Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University, he teaches in their MFA program and lives in San Jose, About his work, Herrera wrote, it breaks away from four decades of inquiry into cultural identity, Martinezs exhil A Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project, J, Michael Martinez received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for his first book, "Heredities, " "In the Garden of the Bridehouse," is available from the University of Arizona Press, His third collection, "Museum of the Americas," was selected for the National Poetry Series by Cornelius Eady and is published by Penguin Press, J. Michael's next work, “Tarta Americana” will be published by Penguin September of, An Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University, he teaches in their MFA program and lives in San Jose, About his work, Herrera wrote, it "breaks away from four decades of inquiry into cultural identity, Martinez's exhilarating descent into the unspokenlit by metaphysical investigations, physiological charts, and meta translations of Hernán Cortés's accounts of his conquestsgives voice to a dismembered continental body buried long ago.
This body, though flayed and fractured, rises and sings, " sitelink.