Much of Martinez's private iconography comes from the picket-fence California community of his youth, in which large events--from the veneration of pop icons (Jean Harlow, Ed Sullivan) to the Vietnam War--seemed to move in slow motion. As an adult, the poet tries to make sense of what the child could not grasp.
Much of Martinez's private iconography comes from the picket-fence California community of his youth, in which large events--from the veneration of po...
