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Cold Blue Steel: Poems Volume 11
Cold Blue Steel contains fifty lyric poems set in the world of the urban street cop in Houston, the nation's fourth largest metropolis.In the patrol car, at scenes of suicides and DOAs, in the overtime reality of aching feet and sweating torsos, the reader experiences the hard realities and unexpected luminosities of doing America's most dangerous job.
Book Details
- Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
- Publish Date: Apr 12nd, 2013
- Pages: 80
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.40in - 0.40in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9781937875022
- Categories: • American - General
About the Author
Sarah Cortez, author of How to Undress a Cop, has edited Windows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives, Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, Indian Country Noir, and You Don't Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens. Her most recent title is Walking Home: Growing Up Hispanic in Houston.
Praise for this book
"While Sarah Cortez's Cold Blue Steel gives a fascinating insider's view of police work rarely seen in poetry, it should not obscure the fact that she is simply a wonderful, talented poet. Period. These direct, hard-hitting poems sometimes had me laughing out loud, but I needed to sock away those laughs to balance the other poems that broke my heart. Cortez takes a poet's eye into the workplace and, like any good poet, uncovers what's really going on beneath the surface. These poems sing packed, tight songs--everything earned, nothing extra." --Jim Daniels, author of Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems, and other books
"As a police officer, writer, and editor...Cortez provides a unique perspective on the front lines of law enforcement in Houston. In this, her second book of poetry, Cortez employs a frank language in sharp lyrics charged with weary passion...Cortez enlives her lines with a deft blend of rhythm and police shorthand...[she] brandishes a mean humor..." --Booklist--Diego Baez "Booklist" (7/2/2013 12:00:00 AM)
"In a culture addicted to cop dramas--on TV, in movies, in the pages of police procedurals--Cortez offers an inside look that both honors and demystifies women and men in uniform." --Houston Chronicle-- "Houston Chronicle" (8/12/2013 12:00:00 AM)
"Cortez's work in Cold Blue Steel is both brutally frank and lyrically, rhythmically beautiful." --Houston Chronicle--Ed Conroy "Houston Chronicle" (10/25/2013 12:00:00 AM)
"With its rough exterior and focused narrative theme, Cold Blue Steel documents the desperate struggle of a woman negotiating a continual series of dehumanizing experiences, a woman hoping to emerge unscathed from that fire and darkness." --Greg Flakus--Greg Flakus (10/29/2013 12:00:00 AM)