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Shadowboxing : poems & impersonations / Joseph Rios.

by Rios, Joseph.

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Omnidawn Publishing, 2017.

Boxers (Sports) -- Poetry.

Mexican Americans -- Poetry.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Joseph Rios reads selections from Shadowboxing on YouTube.

9781632430434 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Shadow boxing : poems & impersonations

95 pages ; 23 cm.

Borrowing the poetic language found in boxing lore and in the Rocky films, Shadowboxing pieces together a poetic portrait of Josefo, a Chicano adolescent working and becoming a poet in the farm territories of Central California. Rios confounds the relationship between author, speaker, and subject within various forms and, at times, across genre. He challenges the usefulness of poetry and stands upon oral histories to demystify California's overlooked labor class. Rios invites the reader to enter Josefo's world of memory, experience, and talk, of packinghouse mentors, storytelling grandmothers, parable-sharing plumbers, smooth talking truck drivers, and infinitely patient literature professors. Joseph Rios is from Fresno's San Joaquin Valley. He is a graduate of Fresno City College and the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Los Angeles.

American poetry.

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