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Welcome to TezTalks!, where the art of poetry transcends the ordinary and delves into the profound. Join us in exploring the intricate tapestry of emotions and ideas woven by Tezozomoc, a distinguished Los Angeles Chicano Essayist, Poet.
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Chapter 3: When Revision Becomes Erasure (opens the original)
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Chapter 3: When Revision Becomes ErasureA companion to Chapter 3 of Right/Write to NarrateThere is a danger that arrives very early in a writer’s life.It does not usually arrive calling itself censorship.It arrives as improvement.Clarify this.Translate that.Smooth the rhythm.Explain the image.Replace the strange word.Make it more universal.Make it sound more literary.The young writer obeys.And the writing improves.Then improves again.The sentences become competent.Then polished.Then publishable.
THE CODEX COMES HOME, BUT ONLY ON LOAN (opens the original)
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THE CODEX COMES HOME, BUT ONLY ON LOANMemory, Possession, and the Long Colonial Life of the Azcatitlan CodexBy Tezozomoc<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="28
Chapter 2: Imposter Syndrome and Borrowed Authority (opens the original)
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Chapter 2: Imposter Syndrome and Borrowed AuthoritySome young writers do not enter the page feeling empty.They enter feeling counterfeit.Not because they have nothing to say.Because they have already inhaled a hierarchy.One voice sounds educated.One voice sounds literary.One voice gets called nuanced.One voice gets called raw.One voice enters the room as intelligence.Another enters as background.One accent is overlooked.Another is corrected.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="http
Unboxing Right/Write To Narrate (opens the original)
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Unboxing Right/Write To Narrate The box landed.And there it was.RIGHT/WRITE TO NARRATE: A Chicano Craft Manifestohttps://a.co/d/0eNvx92B There is something different about holding the book after all the thinking, arguing, cutting, rewriting, remembering, and insisting that went into it.Follow me here: https://tezozomoc.substack.comThis one asks a simple question with a complicated answer:Who gets the right to narrate?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://a.co/d/0eNvx92B" tar
The Right to Narrate Begins Before Permission (opens the original)
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The Right to Narrate Begins Before Permissionfollow me here: https://tezozomoc.substack.cocm In the explainer video accompanying this post, I take a closer look at Chapter One, “The Right to Narrate,” the doorway into Right/Write to Narrate: A Chicano Craft Manifesto. The chapter begins with a simple but consequential observation: “Before anyone teaches you craft, they teach you where not to speak.” For many young Chicana and Chicano writers, that lesson arrives quietly, through the correction,
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