{"id":46287,"date":"2016-03-30T01:49:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46287"},"modified":"2016-03-30T01:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:49:37","slug":"the-coiled-serpent-an-interview-with-the-poetry-anthologys-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46287","title":{"rendered":"The Coiled Serpent: An Interview with the Poetry Anthology\u2019s Creators"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Coiled Serpent: An Interview with the Poetry Anthology\u2019s Creators<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

La Bloga<\/a>
\nMonday, 2016-03-28<\/p>\n

Daniel A. Olivas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As already discussed here on La Bloga in a lovely review by Olga Garc\u00eda Echeverr\u00eda<\/a>, T\u00eda Chucha Press will publish this week a landmark poetry anthology, The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles<\/a><\/em>. I am blessed to be one of the editors of this new book along with the very talented Neelanjana Banerjee<\/a> and Ruben J. Rodriguez. The Coiled Serpent<\/em> includes a powerful, eloquent introduction by the press\u2019s founder, Los Angeles<\/a> Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez<\/a>. Of course, without the vision and poetic reach of Luis, this anthology would not have been born.<\/p>\n

Of this anthology, Ohio State Professor Frederick Luis Aldama<\/a> observes: \u201cThe dexterous hands of this high-octane trio of editors pull together in one exquisite volume LA\u2019s finest of polymorphous polyglot poetic voices. The 150-plus poets disparately drop us into the sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and touch of our planet\u2019s capital: the megalopolis of LA with its hybrid, polylingual, and interstitial peoples. As we brush up with and enter into the lives of the young and old, workers and artists, border crossers and code-shifters\u2026. Persians, Asians, Latinos, African Americans, and all sorts in between, great seismic quakes of creativity invite us to feel life at its most sand-dirt blasting harshness as well as its most soothing and sweet. With The Coiled Serpent<\/em> we feel the cyclonic force of poetic talent at the epicenter of change in the making of tomorrow\u2019s planetary republic of letters.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Coiled Serpent<\/em> will have its formal release event on March 30 at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles the week of AWP\u2019s annual conference (more on the conference below).<\/p>\n

In honor of The Coiled Serpent\u2019s<\/em> release, I posed two questions to Neelanjana Banerjee, Ruben J. Rodriguez and Luis J. Rodriguez. Here are their responses:<\/p>\n

Which poems particularly touched you and why?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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