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Tarta Americana Audiobook, by J. Michael Martinez Play Audiobook Sample

Tarta Americana Audiobook

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Read By: J. Michael Martinez Publisher: Penguin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 2.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593791004

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

77

Longest Chapter Length:

15:52 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

12 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

02:25 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire Ragged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories. Against the recent tide of white nationalism in the United States, Tarta Americana finds a rhinestone in Ritchie Valens, the rock and roll legend, surfacing across time and bodies, genders and sounds, displacing the linear unfolding of desire and biography. Valens, the embodiment of corporeal transcendence, guides Martinez as he expresses his own neurodiversity, his struggles and triumphs, interrogating memory, gender, and race, traversing pain in search of compassion and joy. Tarta Americana, tarred and glittering, melodic in its screams, overdrives text and space in chase of American politics that could, at last, harmonize love with redemption.

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