``One of the most exciting and visceral poets of his generation.`` --Tony Hoagland ``Look at homie on the beach picking shells in dress shoes,`` David Tomas Martinez writes in his raw, electrifying second collection.
Emerging from the fray, the poet.
In his debut, Hustle , Martinez offered a kaleidoscopic coming-of-age narrative replete with teen shootings and car-jackings, uncertain forays into sex, and the ongoing violence of colonialism upon Latino communities in San Diego. ``One of the most exciting and visceral poets of his generation.`` --Tony Hoagland ``Look at homie on the beach picking shells in dress shoes,`` David Tomas Martinez writes in his raw, electrifying second collection