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Pepper Spray

by Paul Martínez Pompa

with an introduction by

Luis J. Rodríguez

An Interview with Paul Martínez Pompa

 

Praise for Pepper Spray:

Paul Martinez Pompa’s Pepper Spray illustrates how overtly political poetry can be written without any reliance on stereotypical language or placard-isms; rather, Pompa precisely defines the world we far too often turn away from with satiric humor mixed with a polite but firm slap in the face.

— Robert Vasquez

Paul Martínez Pompa’s poems sizzle like Chicago on a sticky August night […] Paul’s longer poems are walking stories—some have wheels on them, his shorter ones are the quick punches of a young and talented boxer whose ring is the white blank page […] You can go through hundreds of contemporary poems written today and not find any crawling this terrain […] Don’t just read them once. Visit them several times. Some come at you sideways. When you least expect it. Sucker punching their way to existence…

— Luis J. Rodríguez

A sample poem from Pepper Spray
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