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A grave is given supper, Mike Soto ; [images by Daniel Gonzalez]

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-130)

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A grave is given supper

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Mike Soto ; [images by Daniel Gonzalez]

"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 and loss, culture and spirituality, and 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 and complicated desires of lives taking place in the borderland."--Back coverSoto uses themes from the ongoing drug war taking place in a fictional U.S./ Mexico border town to weave a narco-tinged "Acid Western" told in a series of interlinked poems following the arc of Alejandro Jodorowsky's film, El Topo

Machine generated contents note:, PART I, Blank Chapel or, Consuelo's Mistake, Topito, Fue El Estado, Fog Having Tea with a Graveyard, Ampersand Kings, Breaking an Open Window, First Supper, Breve Historia, Topito's Fate, Consuelo's Vision, Death the Man Who Silvers the Desert at Night, Everyday Tunnels, The Dead Women, [Aluminum children run holding snakeskins up], [When the firing squad lines up, honey], Mercury Topaz, Laundry across Balconies or, Deciding to Fold, Topito's Yes, PART II, [Sixty-eight were found without heads], [One moment, the vehicle], [At the top of the Ferris wheel, the city], [To say I love you put a bird on a wire], [Looking to get Consuelo's name written], Instructions or, Consuelo's Yes, [The first time I saw Death her dress], [A dung beetle climbed out of the dead], [Got out of the Datsun, found myself at], Paloma Negra or, Topito's Mistake, Consuelo Gone, One Day a River Won't Stop Leaving My Mouth, [Let the rifle sleep & take the path], The Wall Commonly Known as the Brow of God, Death the Man Always in the Pink Corner Store Buying Nothing, Consuelo's Promise, Missing (Consuelo's List), The Next Life, Hourglass with Bat Wings, PART III, [The sadness of a fully dressed man walking], Consuelo's Shawl, The Invention or, Consuelo's Explanation of the Third Eye, Dressing up a Drug Lord, Paloma Negra, Square inside a Circle, Death the Greedy Politician, The Useful Rituals, Untitled (Tunnel with Horse & Rider), Topito's Poise, Consuelo in the Poppy Fields, A Few Visions (Topito's List), Malverde Chapel or, Consuelo's Revenge, Memento Mori in Three Exponential Ifs, Death the Coppersmith