Bøger af Joaquin Zihuatanejo

Like and Share is a new collection of stories, poems, and statuses from award winning poet, Joaquín Zihuatanejo. All were inspired by, or in some instances taken word for word from pieces written and then posted on his social media over the last two years. The book is more than just a collection of the most poetic, amusing, and inspiring poems and stories of the last two years of his life, it is a testimony of the beauty, the love, the hope that exists all around us, if we just take the time to notice it. And for the first time ever, these stories, poems, and statuses are gathered together in one collection for you to like and hopefully share.

"Occupy Whiteness is a collection of hybrid erasure poems from inaugural Dallas Poet Laureate and multi-world slam competition winner Joaquâin Zihuatanejo. Using long-form works of literature by white, male, straight authors, Zihuatanejo occupies these works by erasing words and pages of these works, leaving only a handful of each work. The white space that remains becomes colonized Brown verse. Occupy Whiteness is an act of rebellion that reclaims spaces and highlights a history of erasure of Brown life. These poems are also haunted and blessed by the image of abuelos who brave the river and desert into border states for the opportunity of freedom. Ultimately these poems are meant to agitate and create uneasiness that makes the reader realize that Zihuatanejo and immigrant children are not Other. These poems strive to depict this equally beautiful and brutal place we call home"--

"A walk through scholarship essay writing, the scholarship process, and the transition from high school senior to college freshman by World Poetry Slam Champion and award-winning teacher, Joaquin Zihuatanejo. Joaquin shares his own college scholarship story that took him from barrio boy to award-winning teacher and published author."--

In his new collection Fight or Flight, poet, writer, and teacher, Joaquin Zihuatanejo, explores new territory with every turn of the page. The book itself is surprising in that this is the first time Zihuatanejo has written a book that is equal parts poetry and equal parts short stories. The Fight side finds Joaquin in his element as poet. These are all new poems, and in the Fight side of the book Joaquin explores familiar themes in entirely new and exciting ways. The Fight side is filled with hybrids of closed forms, poems written in interconnected couplets, as well as free verse poems with long disconsolate lines. One of the poems in this collection, "Archetypes," Joaquin considers the most personal poem he's written to date. He also considers it his best writing to date. You will want to read, and reread, and share these poems with people you love. However, in the other half of the book, the award-winning poet has tackled a new genre. In the collection of short stories that make up the Flight side of the book, you will read about people whose struggles range from marriages on the verge of collapse, to a young, gay man haunted by the memory of his abusive father, to a small Latino boy blinded by a careless swing of a bat, among others. Zihuatanejo went out of his way to write about protagonists who are Latino. Like his first collection of poetry, Barrio Songs, from Bonita Blvd Publications, Joaquin in the second half of his new collection from CoolSpeak Book Publishing wanted to write about people who sounded like his tios, like the mocosos he used to run the streets with, like the people who raised him, like the people he finds in his dreams. One-third poetry collection, one-third short fiction collection, and one-third writing journal, Fight or Flight, by award winning poet, Joaquin Zihuatanejo has something in it for everyone. When asked about it recently, Zihuatanejo simply said, "It's the best writing I've ever done."