Description:
My Kill Adore Him interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones.
Brief description:
Paul Martínez Pompa teaches composition and creative writing at Triton College in River Grove, Illinois. His chapbook Pepper Spray was published in 2006.
Review Quotes:
"Like the poet's native Chicago, even when violent or troubling, Paul Martínez Pompa's poems risk beauty. His work possesses a fluidity that appears both effortless and well earned. His is a Chicago Renaissance of one--Gwendolyn Brooks's Bronzeville and Carl Sandburg's 'city of big shoulders' becoming a 'city of broken lovers' and 'an entire city in your ears' in Martínez Pompa's capable hands. Playful and political and passionate, the poems in My Kill Adore Him mark an important debut, one you'll surely adore."--Kevin Young author of Dear Darkness and For the Confederate Dead