Hell/a Mexican

by Kevin Madrigal Galindo, James Cagney (Editor)

Hell/a Mexican is an appreciation of the tragicomedy that is existing on American soil with foreign roots. These stories shed light on the boundless experience of living and learning through your identity. This collection, much like us, reaches for hope; Sometimes we find it, sometimes we don’t.

Genres: Poetry

65 pages, Paperback

Published January 28, 2022

Reviews

[Chloe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muchisimas gracias for pouring su corazón, su alma, y todo lo demás Kevin para su gente.

I am so happy to know you and see your work manifested into something so vulnerable. Doing the hard work with decolonization, identity work, and everything that comes with being raised in this hell of a country.

I can’t wait to dive into the journal prompts and revisit this chapbook continuously.

[Dina Klarisse]

A small poetry collection full of life and attitude and grief and hope. In the contradictions of identity, Kevin picks apart what makes us us. Each poem is a confrontation, a dance, a tasting, a peak behind the curtain. With a voice that is at once clear, tender, and interrogative, Kevin demands the reader to look not just inward but also at the structures, language, and people surrounding us. He searches, destablizies, and builds back up the definitions of identity, all while acknowledging both the absurdity and urgency of identity in a society that tries to tell us who we are. The reader is left satiated but hungry for more, caught on to the contagious search for meaning through the mundane and obscure things we often overlook.