Latin American Review of Books

Latin American Review of Books

Mexico

A shared journey

The longing of a Mexican American poet speaks for us all. Review: A Face Out Of Clay: Poems, Brent Ameneyro, by Gavin O'Toole

Latin American Review of Books
Jul 11, 2024
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A Face Out Of Clay: Poems, Brent Ameneyro, 2024, Center for Literary Publishing Colorado State University

Candour is the finest virtue and the bitter truth concealed within so much diaspora poetry is that the writer possesses either several identities or none.

This is an endemic condition in a modernity of shifting ground where we all, to an extent, trace…

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