Why the Assembly Disbanded

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Product Details
Price
$16.95  $15.76
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Publish Date
Pages
88
Dimensions
4.9 X 7.8 X 0.4 inches | 0.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780823299256

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About the Author
Roberto Tejada is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches in the Departments of English, Creative Writing, and Art History. He has published numerous volumes of poetry as well as several works of Art and Media History.
Reviews
A stunningly original, politically complex, and masterful book of poems. Why the Assembly Disbanded, in its deep syntactical meditations and ever surprising use of powerful, yet subtle language and evocative forms, cuts out of the fear and pathos of the day as it arrests and reminds us of the need for invention and wonder at this precarious moment.---Ronaldo V. Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz
Why the Assembly Disbanded by Roberto Tejada (Feb. 11, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-8232-9925-6). Reflecting on the state of affairs between the U.S. and Latin America, Tejada writes on white supremacy, immigration, intersectional identity, and community.---Publishers Weekly, Spring Announcements
That Tejada's new book faces up to constant threats to assembly--whether that assembly is of artists, immigrants, or outsiders in the society of alternate belonging--makes the playfulness of his assemblage all the more powerful.-- "World Literature Today"
Why the Assembly Disbanded by Roberto Tejada endeavors to assemble the heart of assemblages; it fights to illustrate the power struggle built in the plinths of assemblage, the borderlines that break it, and the often-quiet forces that attempt to wrench power from the individual and collective.-- "Michigan Quarterly Review"