Mendoza, Jonathan 2019
Watch Jonathan Mendoza perform his poem “For Quiet Boys”:
You ask me for my name,
and I say, “It’s pronounced Mendoza,”
and again, the Spaniard spits it out my throat,
pats me on the tongue,
tells me I have been a good subject,
and again, I have traded this empire
for my former one.
– Jonathan Mendoza, “Onomástico”
Watch Jonathan Mendoza perform his poem “Brown Boy, White Boy”:
