The Codex Mojaodicus (Fence Modern Poets Series)

The Codex Mojaodicus collects three novels-in-verse - "My Sweet Conquistador," "Chaley Way," and "The Pocho Codex" - all of which mine, mime, record and disgorge the impressions and dissertations of language as it is uttered, stuttered, and felt in a variety of tongues and heads. In these theatrical poems, Alvarez documents a multilingual field, tracing a Xicano genome over and above