The Coiled Serpent

Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles

Neelanjana Banerjee editor Daniel A Olivas editor Ruben J Rodriguez editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Tia Chucha Press

Published:31st Mar '16

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This anthology features the vitality and variety of verse in the City of Angels, a city of poets. This is more about range then representation, voice more than volume. Los Angeles has close to 60 percent people of color, 225 languages spoken at home, and some of the richest and poorest persons in the country. With an expansive 502.7 square miles of city (and beyond, including the massive county of 4,752.32 square miles), the poetry draws on imagery, words, stories, and imaginations that are also vast, encompassing, a real ""leaves of grass.""

Well-known poets include Holly Prado, Ruben Martinez, traci kato-kiriyama, and Lynne Thompson. Many strong new voices, however, makes this a well-rounded collection for any literary class, program, bookstore, or event.

The image of the coiled serpent appears in various forms in mythologies throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, India, and America. In pre-conquest times, Quetzalcoatl—the Precious Serpent—served as a personification of earth-bound wisdom, the arts and eldership in so-called Meso-America, one of seven ""cradles of civilization"" that also includes China, Nigeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and Peru.

ISBN: 9781882688524

Dimensions: 226mm x 149mm x 27mm

Weight: 586g

250 pages