Description
In the alternate universe of this glitteringly surreal first novel, the Aztecs rule, having conquered the European invaders. Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness, is visited by visions of a parallel world run by the Europeans, where consumerism reigns supreme. Aztecs armed with automatic weapons, totemic powers and blood sacrifice conquer and colonize 1940s Europe, as ghosts of the world wars emerge to haunt contemporary Los Angeles.
Atomik Aztex is a hilarious read. A potent concoction, with influences from graphic novels, along with Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, the paranoia of Philip K. Dick and William Burroughs, and an outrageous cyber-Aztl n mix reminiscent of Guillermo G mez-Pe a.
Sesshu Foster is the author of the critically acclaimed City Terrace Field Manual.
Author: Sesshu Foster
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 07/01/2005
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.32w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780872864405
ISBN10: 0872864405
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Dystopian
- Fiction | Urban & Street Lit
About the Author
Sesshu Foster is the author of City Terrace Field Manual (Kaya Press, 1996), and Atomik Aztex (City Lights, 2005), Sesshu Foster teaches literature and composition in East L.A., where he grew up. His poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and journals. Invocation L.A.: Multicultural Urban Poetry, which he edited with Naomi Quinonez and Michelle Clinton, won a 1990 American Book Award.