December Book Announcement Mexican Style, by Matt Sedillo

Jose Antonio Aguirre Our Legacy Forever Presente… (Byzantine and Venetian glass mosaic mural) East Los Angeles Library

Following up on City on the Second Floor and Mowing Leaves of Grass, Sedillo returns to FlowerSong Press with Mexican Style written with his signature dynamic urgency and brimming with historic references and allusions this latest collection represents Sedillo's most ambitious work to date. In this collection Sedillo explores themes of struggle and identity and devotion to a cause and a people. Throughout we find a different more playful side of Sedillo with nods, homages, reinterpretations in this collection to the works of Rulfo, Marquez, Bunuel, Gogol Varda just to name a few. This book is an adventure.

Here is what people are saying ...

Brimming with humor, raw honesty, and unflinching criticism, Sedillo's poems are a powerful exploration of belonging, resistance, and the enduring strength of the Mexican spirit.

-Reyna Grande

Like Baraka, Montoya and Ginsberg, Sedillo forces us to look at our collective madness through the poet’s eyes. A Maestro is born. Herbert Siguenza ....Sedillo sets the tone and hope in our Chicanx literary futures.

-Martha Gonzalez

I don't like poetry but I like what Matt does.

-Lalo Alcaraz