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Soto uses themes from the ongoing drug war taking place in a fictional U.S./ Mexico border town to weave a narco-tinged ""Acid Western"" told in a series of interlinked poems following the arc of Alejandro Jodorowsky's film, El Topo.

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The landscape in A Grave is Given a Supper recalls the tones of Frank Stanford, steeped with our phantasmagoric Texan borderlands. Soto offers up each poem like a votive candle, wreath of roses, or weapon, to lay on the altar of the outlaw Jesus Malverde, announcing the arrival of a new literary voice. - Fernando A. Flores, author of Pig Latin and Stuck on a Razor Soto drives a relentless narrative from poem to poem... a narrative composed of equal parts joy and rage. - The Literary Review Soto eases into discomfort and renders it stunning. - Katy Dycus, The Wild Detectives There is a deep, inescapable sadness in many of Mike Soto's poems but it is a sadness for the world and never himself. It's wrong to stereotype poets, even positively, but I think Soto's Mexican literary heritage is deep in his bone marrow. It's a rich, earthly, mystical tradition in which to have one's taproots. These poems of light and life are compressed, but never crushed. - Thomas Lux

Soto drives a relentless narrative from poem to poem... a narrative composed of equal parts joy and rage. - The Literary Review Soto eases into discomfort and renders it stunning. - Katy Dycus, The Wild Detectives There is a deep, inescapable sadness in many of Mike Soto's poems but it is a sadness for the world and never himself. It's wrong to stereotype poets, even positively, but I think Soto's Mexican literary heritage is deep in his bone marrow. It's a rich, earthly, mystical tradition in which to have one's taproots. These poems of light and life are compressed, but never crushed. - Thomas Lux

The landscape in A Grave is Given a Supper recalls the tones of Frank Stanford, steeped with our phantasmagoric Texan borderlands. Soto offers up each poem like a votive candle, wreath of roses, or weapon, to lay on the altar of the outlaw Jesus Malverde, announcing the arrival of a new literary voice. -Fernando A. Flores, author of Pig Latin and Stuck on a Razor Soto describes insects, femicide and the border wall in mystical terms. -Jaime Dunaway, Advocate Mag A surreal exploration of the Mexican drug war written in free verse... While many poems traverse...dreamlike terrain, they're also sometimes grounded in reality. This is where the book is most gripping and provocative. -Tim Diovanni, Dallas Morning News On Dallas Spleen and previous work: Soto drives a relentless narrative from poem to poem... a narrative composed of equal parts joy and rage. -The Literary Review Soto eases into discomfort and renders it stunning. -Katy Dycus, The Wild Detectives There is a deep, inescapable sadness in many of Mike Soto's poems but it is a sadness for the world and never himself. It's wrong to stereotype poets, even positively, but I think Soto's Mexican literary heritage is deep in his bone marrow. It's a rich, earthly, mystical tradition in which to have one's taproots. These poems of light and life are compressed, but never crushed. -Thomas Lux

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Mike Soto is a first generation Mexican American, raised in East Dallas and in a small town in Michoacn. He is the author of the chapbooks Beyond the Shadow's Ink, and most recently Dallas Spleen (Deep Vellum). He received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, & was awarded the James Merrill Poetry Fellowship by Vermont Studio Center in 2019. A Grave Is Given Supper is his debut collection of poetry.

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