Soto Mike - A Grave Is Given Supper - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A Narco - Acid Western told in a series of interlinked poems Soto's striking debut collection follows the converging paths of two protagonists through El Sumidero a fictional US/ Mexico border town where an ongoing drug war is raging. The surreal verse of Soto's poems portrays a bleak political climate as it coincides with the rituals of love & loss culture & spirituality & the quest for a better life at all costs. Following the narrative arc of Alejandro Jodorowsky's classic cult film El Topo A Grave is Given Supper builds a world saturated with a mystical aura that describes the finite tensions & complicated desires of lives taking place in the borderland.
Title: A Grave Is Given Supper
Author(s): Soto Mike
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Barcode: 9781646050109
Pages: 144 Pages, 9 B&W Illustrations
Publication Date: 7/28/2020
Category: Hispanic & Latino Studies