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Some poetry falls readily into categories and schools, but there isn't yet a poetics to confine Tamez, for she writes of and from a hybrid identity--Indian and Spanish or, as she more clearly defines it, Lipan and Jumano Apache and Spanish Land Grant from South Texas--and a sense of global citizenship. Her rhetorically strong work moves between "warm cabernet" and "clinking beer bottles" as she negotiates a terrain more complex than the abstract term
multicultural implies. She is bold and forthright as she maps this new world, describing herself as "an invisibility / Scudding through all the checkpoints / Border towns train tracks pesticide flybys welfare lines / Wings shifting shape." Her topics range from brutality against women to tender lust, from industrial pollution to hopes for children, but her subject is consistent: the effect of marginalization on people, places, and the planet.
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