Kontemporary Amerikan PoetryJohn Murillos second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against Blacks and Latinos and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a fathers fists; a workout at an iron gym recalls a long ago mentor who pushed the speaker to become something unbreakable. The presence of these and poetic forbearsGil Scott Heron, Yusef