Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series, an anthology by the author of The Devils Garden explores ideas on such topics as race, appropriation, and cultural identity while considering the plausibility that all things are part of a whole regardless of their disparity. Original. Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin Young The poems in Adrian Matejkas second collection, Mixology, shapeshift through the myriad meanings of mixing to explore and explode ideas of race, skin politics, appropriation, and cultural identity. Whether the focus of the individual poems is musical, digital, or historical, the otherness implicit in being of more than one racial background guides Matejkas work to the inevitable conclusion that all things-no matter how disparate-are parts of the whole.
