Museum of the Americas throws resistance

resistance

rice and maple trees

Starting over on a new continent

In this illuminating study

have been acting strangely — forgetting important things

Museum of the Americas throws resistanceThe poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of