The poems in Manuel Paul Lopez's "The Yearning Feed," winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, are embedded in the San Diego/Imperial Valley regions, communities located along the U.S.-Mexico border. Lopez, an Imperial Valley native, considers "La Frontera," or the border, as magical, worthy of Macondo-like comparisons, where contradictions are firmly rooted and ironies play out on a daily basis. These poems synthesize Lopez s knowledge of modern and contemporary literature with a border-child vernacular sensibility to produce a work that illustrates the ongoing geographical and...
The poems in Manuel Paul Lopez's "The Yearning Feed," winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, are embedded in the San Diego/Imperial Valley...
