Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut

Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut is a collection of thirty-six poems that offer a glimpse into LA Latinx life by exploring the history and lexicon of a queer Chicana, her family, and her passions. The work utilizes ekphrastic form to create a collection that evocatively probes at the lives of Latino people as resistance to the oppression they are confronted with on a daily basis. Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut attempts to replace caricatures with distinctive characters thus adding to the growing body of creative and scholarly work providing detail and nuance to the Latino experience and challenging traditional stereotypes of Latino family and culture. The work is primarily in English but does employ periodic lines in Spanish. "Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut" is a working title that comes from title of an LA-inspired art installation.