Mexican Style, by Matt Sedillo

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Following up on City on the Second Floor and Mowing Leaves of Grass, Sedillo returns to FlowerSong Press with Mexican Style written with his signature dynamic urgency and brimming with historic references and allusions this latest collection represents Sedillo's most ambitious work to date. In this collection Sedillo explores themes of struggle and identity and devotion to a cause and a people. Throughout we find a different more playful side of Sedillo with nods, homages, reinterpretations in this collection to the works of Rulfo, Marquez, Bunuel, Gogol Varda just to name a few. This book is an adventure.

Following up on City on the Second Floor and Mowing Leaves of Grass, Sedillo returns to FlowerSong Press with Mexican Style written with his signature dynamic urgency and brimming with historic references and allusions this latest collection represents Sedillo's most ambitious work to date. In this collection Sedillo explores themes of struggle and identity and devotion to a cause and a people. Throughout we find a different more playful side of Sedillo with nods, homages, reinterpretations in this collection to the works of Rulfo, Marquez, Bunuel, Gogol Varda just to name a few. This book is an adventure.

Here is what people are saying ...

Brimming with humor, raw honesty, and unflinching criticism, Sedillo's poems are a powerful exploration of belonging, resistance, and the enduring strength of the Mexican spirit.

-Reyna Grande

Like Baraka, Montoya and Ginsberg, Sedillo forces us to look at our collective madness through the poet’s eyes. A Maestro is born. Herbert Siguenza ....Sedillo sets the tone and hope in our Chicanx literary futures.

-Martha Gonzalez

I don't like poetry but I like what Matt does.

-Lalo Alcaraz

Matt Sedillo has been described as the "best political poet in America" as well as "the poet laureate of the struggle." His work has drawn comparisons in print to Bertolt Brecht, Roque Dalton, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg,  and various other legends of the past. Sedillo was the recipient of the 2017 Joe Hill Labor Poetry award, a panelist at the 2020 Texas book festival, a participant in the 2012 San Francisco International Poetry Festival, the 2022 Elba Poetry Festival, and the recipient of the 2022 Dante's Laurel. Sedillo has appeared on CSPAN and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Axios, the Associated Press among other publications. Sedillo has spoken at Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba, at numerous conferences and forums such as the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, the National Association of Chicana/Chicano Studies, the Left Forum, the US Social Forum, and at over a hundred universities and colleges, including the University of Cambridge, among many others. Matt Sedillo is the author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (FlowerSong Press, 2019) and City on the Second Floor (FlowerSong Press, 2022). Both of which are taught at universities throughout the country. Sedillo is the current literary director of The Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles.