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Dead Chicano Mixtape hits different. It hits hard. This isn’t just a book. It’s a raw, unflinching remix of mortality, narrative, and heritage. Part reanimation of the past, part reimagining of the future, Dead Chicano Mixtape fills the gaps of memory, race, and culture with myths and characters too big for this life—and the next. Here, absent fathers mingle with Kaiju-sized abuelas. Past-their-prime tíos crack beers with the God of the Dead. Superpowered sisters cross paths with Speedy Gonzales. All of them asking that burning question: how do you live? If you’re looking for contemplation or meditation, look elsewhere. Dead Chicano Mixtape will hit you in the gut, leave a ringing in your ears with its songs on your lips long after it’s gone.
Vincent Antonio Rendoni is the author of A Grito Contest in the Afterlife, winner of the 2022 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets selected by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Dorianne Laux. His poems have appeared in AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Copper Nickel, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Alaska Quarterly Review, december, and elsewhere. He lives in White Center, WA.