The Codex Mojaodicus collects three novels-in-verse --"My Sweet
Conquistador," "Chaley Way," and "The Pocho Codex" -- all of which mine,
mime, record and disgorge the impressions and dissertations of language
as it is uttered, stuttered, and felt in a variety of tongues and heads.
In these theatrical poems, Alvarez documents a multilingual field,
tracing a Xicano genome over and above