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spotted near Saturn the feathered-serpent starship Aztec god of old From award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous Texas poet Juan Manuel Pérez comes a scifaiku collection of haiku crowns-linked haiku sequences-exploring identity, indigeneity, and the fantastic. In another world where Aztec gods walk the stars, mermaloids whisper from ocean trenches, and chupacabras roam starlit deserts, BURY MY HEART UNDER THE MARTIAN SKY reimagines the future through the past. With his signature style, Pérez captures the tension between colonization and cosmic conquest, humor and horror, and myth and memory.

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Juan Manuel Pérez is a Mexican-American poet of Indigenous descent and former Poet Laureate of Corpus Christi, Texas. He is the author of numerous award-nominated poetry books, including O' Dark Heaven: A Response to Suzette Haden Elgin's Definition of Horror, Sex, Lies, and Chupacabras, Space In Pieces, Screw The Wall! And Other Brown People Poems, Planet Of The Zombie Zonnets: Seasons One And Two, Terror Of The Zombie Zonnets: Planet Of The Zombie Zonnets Season Three, Truth In The Time Of Chupacabras, and Thirty Years Ago: Life And The First Gulf War.Juan is the co-founder of The House of the Fighting Chupacabras Press as well as the co-editor of the speculative poetry anthologies, Unleash Your Inner Chupacabra, and The Call Of The Chupacabra. He is the Lone Star State's only El Chupacabras Poet Laureate (For Life), and a Zombie Texas Poet Of The Year.Juan is previously from La Pryor, Texas, and a former migrant field worker. A ten-year U.S. Navy veteran, Pérez served as a Navy Corpsman/Combat Marine Medic during the 1991 Gulf War and in the 1992 Hurricane Andrew relief effort. A past Gourd Dancer with the Memphis Tia Piah Big River Clan Warrior Society, he is now a teacher in the Texas Coastal Bend and a SEATTAH Scholar through the University of Dallas.To learn more about him, go to https: //www.juanmperez.com/

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