"Like the poet's native Chicago, even when violent or troubling, Paul Martinez Pompa's poems risk beauty. His work possesses a fluidity that a...
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Dec 17, 2009
Aaron Michael
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From my review in MultiCultural Review:
In his breathtaking debut poetry collection, My Kill Adore Him (2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize winner), Paul Martínez Pompa bursts onto the contemporary Latino scene with literary guns ablaze. Pompa is precisely what we need right now: a brave poet just as critical of himself as he is of others. Within the pages of this clever and brutally honest text lie the words of an old soul—who just happens to be a young poet. Pompa’s youth and aged wisd More...
In his breathtaking debut poetry collection, My Kill Adore Him (2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize winner), Paul Martínez Pompa bursts onto the contemporary Latino scene with literary guns ablaze. Pompa is precisely what we need right now: a brave poet just as critical of himself as he is of others. Within the pages of this clever and brutally honest text lie the words of an old soul—who just happens to be a young poet. Pompa’s youth and aged wisd More...
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Nov 08, 2009
Karen
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Paul Martinez Pompa's first collection of poetry, My Kill Adore Him, is brutal. It's brutal because it's violent. It's brutal because it's graphic. But mostly, it's brutal because it's brilliant. Set against the city backdrop of Chicago, PMP's work takes us to a boy's bathroom, to a fifth grade classroom where a lonely persona is called a "Stupid Meck-sah-kin," to a poetry reading at a suburban-strip-mall enterprise called The Cafe Tamale. In PMP's world, summer is Chicago "smot
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Aug 31, 2009
Barbara
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Dec 06, 2009
John
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This collection starts strong, but I thought it lost some coherence near the last section. Nevertheless, Martínez Pompa is definitely taking Latino poetry in some new, startling directions. I'll look forward to future work.
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