Screw the Wall! By Juan Manuel Pérez
Screw the Wall! And Other Brown People Poems is a point-driving, brotherly-love, poetic view into the human issues that affect Brown People about co-existing with other people in the Americas, especially those who recently arrived within the last 500 years. From pre-Hispanics/pre-Columbian/Indigenous descendants to mid-last century Chicanos and Civil Rights leaders, to whatever current choice of definition they select to call themselves today, THEY are all Brown People! This book is for them and about them, as well as it is for you and about you. Especially YOU, on the cusp of trying to understand what it is to be a hyphenated American.
It is also for YOU, always ranting about a “birthright” that belongs to ALL humans and not just your kind or your skin color. Let all the words in this book make you laugh, happy, sad, nostalgic, or make you question, angry, and even hate… the ideas you had before about people of other cultures, especially those constantly at the forefront of making sure they are the solid-working foundation of great civilizations.
Screw your walls, your borders, your angry, hateful speech, your racist views, and learn to really screw, or rather love, in peace, existence, and understanding of all the cultures that surround you, especially those who were here on this side of the world long before. No doubt, this modern indigenous poet’s words will set your heart on fire one way or another. Get this book and find out how.
Screw the Wall! And Other Brown People Poems is a point-driving, brotherly-love, poetic view into the human issues that affect Brown People about co-existing with other people in the Americas, especially those who recently arrived within the last 500 years. From pre-Hispanics/pre-Columbian/Indigenous descendants to mid-last century Chicanos and Civil Rights leaders, to whatever current choice of definition they select to call themselves today, THEY are all Brown People! This book is for them and about them, as well as it is for you and about you. Especially YOU, on the cusp of trying to understand what it is to be a hyphenated American.
It is also for YOU, always ranting about a “birthright” that belongs to ALL humans and not just your kind or your skin color. Let all the words in this book make you laugh, happy, sad, nostalgic, or make you question, angry, and even hate… the ideas you had before about people of other cultures, especially those constantly at the forefront of making sure they are the solid-working foundation of great civilizations.
Screw your walls, your borders, your angry, hateful speech, your racist views, and learn to really screw, or rather love, in peace, existence, and understanding of all the cultures that surround you, especially those who were here on this side of the world long before. No doubt, this modern indigenous poet’s words will set your heart on fire one way or another. Get this book and find out how.
Screw the Wall! And Other Brown People Poems is a point-driving, brotherly-love, poetic view into the human issues that affect Brown People about co-existing with other people in the Americas, especially those who recently arrived within the last 500 years. From pre-Hispanics/pre-Columbian/Indigenous descendants to mid-last century Chicanos and Civil Rights leaders, to whatever current choice of definition they select to call themselves today, THEY are all Brown People! This book is for them and about them, as well as it is for you and about you. Especially YOU, on the cusp of trying to understand what it is to be a hyphenated American.
It is also for YOU, always ranting about a “birthright” that belongs to ALL humans and not just your kind or your skin color. Let all the words in this book make you laugh, happy, sad, nostalgic, or make you question, angry, and even hate… the ideas you had before about people of other cultures, especially those constantly at the forefront of making sure they are the solid-working foundation of great civilizations.
Screw your walls, your borders, your angry, hateful speech, your racist views, and learn to really screw, or rather love, in peace, existence, and understanding of all the cultures that surround you, especially those who were here on this side of the world long before. No doubt, this modern indigenous poet’s words will set your heart on fire one way or another. Get this book and find out how.
Juan Manuel Pérez, a Mexican-American poet of indigenous descent. He is the 2021 Horror Authors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. Juan is the recipient of the Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant (2021) and the Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi, Texas (2019-2020).