Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives

Chopper! Chopper! reflects the lives of Mexican Americans, immigrants, Chicanas/os, and la joterímalfloras, jotos, and beautiful rainbow communities. As vividly as Mexican Technicolor, these poems capture life in the barrio: vendors hauling carts with elote, raspados, botes y más. Vatos fighting to exist. Mujeres claiming space. Summer evenings, children playing in the calles of East L.A., El Paso, and bordered tierras everywhere. Reyes’s work exudes the pride, strength, turmoil and struggl...