A Face Out of Clay (Mountain West Poetry Series)

The poems in A Face Out of Clay explore a dual identity through several lenses, including ancestry and personal experiences living in both the United States and Mexico. Brent Ameneyro spent several formative years of his childhood living in Puebla, Mexico; his father is from Mexico City and his mother is from Wisconsin. Because identity is a constantly evolving concept and often difficult to pinpoint, the poems are sometimes grounded by concrete imagery and narrative, and other times they present as lyric, subconscious dreamscapes. And because identity is also tied to place, both criticism and celebration of the author's two countries appear throughout the collection. In other words, the personal inevitably becomes political.