China Pop

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Ward. Drawings by Lennin Vasquez. The themes of Domingo de Ramos' poetry run the gamut: the complexity of love, the beauty and joy of eroticism, urban violence, alienation, and unsightly depictions of Lima, Peru. The reader journeys along burning sidewalks and through oil-drenched plazas, "red ants carrying bones" belonging to the thousands of people who did not survive Peru's Internal Conflict. De Ramos' poetry blends music, pop art, hybrid chicha, and the Quechua- language Huayno.