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Tomás Morín hails from the coastal plains of Texas, and explores a world where identity and place shift like that ever-changing shore. In these poems, culture crashes like waves and leaves behind Billie Holiday and the CIA, disco balls and Dante, the Bible and Jerry Maguire. They are long, lean, and dazzle in their telling: \"Whiteface\" is a list of instructions for people stopped by the police; \"Duct Tape\" lauds our domestic life from the point of view of the tape itself. One part Groucho Marx, one part Job, Morín considers our obsession with suffering--\"the pain in which we trust\"--and finds that the best answer to our predicament is sometimes anger, sometimes laughter, but always via the keen line between them that may be the sharpest weapon we have.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781524711986","publication_date":"20240723","publisher":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","slug":"machete","subtitle":"Poems","title":"Machete"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"POE005070","confidence_band":"high","label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":0.8181,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7628,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Hispanic American Lit Crit","score":0.7618,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"POE005070","confidence_band":"high","label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":0.8181,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7628,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Hispanic American Lit Crit","score":0.7618,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"POE005070","confidence_band":"high","label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"high","label":"Place Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"SOC070000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Race & Ethnic Relations","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":0.8181,"slug":"hispanic-american-poetry"},{"label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7628,"slug":"place-poetry"},{"label":"Hispanic American Lit Crit","score":0.7618,"slug":"hispanic-american-lit-crit"}],"reader_fit":["For readers drawn to poetry about suffering, identity, and shifting place"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Eduardo C. 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