The Devil's Garden - by Adrian Matejka (Paperback)

Using musical allusion and metaphor, juxtaposing history and autobiography, Matejka navigates a triracial identity.

In these poems, having too many heritages means having no heritage at all.

As a result, cultural identifiers--be they afros, war paint, or William Shatner--take the place of identity.

Vibrant narrative lyrics use image as riff, syllable as note, to improvise on a personal history severed from tradition.