Tarta AmericanaBy: J. Michael Martinez Series: Penguin Poets A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid twentieth century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire Ragged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories. Against the recent tide of white nationalism in the United