The Canción Cannibal Cabaret & Other Songs

A hybrid poetry and performance text, The Canción Cannibal Cabaret is the much anticipated second book by award-winning author and performance poet Amalia Ortiz. Focused on the theme of revolution and inspired by current issues of social injustice, The Canción Cannibal Cabaret is set in a not-so-distant dystopian future. As a text, it is a collection of post-apocalyptic prose poems and poem songs “cannibalizing” knowledges from before the fall of civilization. It also contains the sheet music to three songs, as well as production photographs. The Canción Cannibal Cabaret, is a punk rock musical—part concept album, part live theatre.

Amalia Ortiz, Tejana actor, writer, and activist, appeared on three seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO and the NAACP Image Awards on FOX. Amalia’s debut book of poetry, Rant. Chant. Chisme., published by Wings Press, won the 2015 Poetry Discovery Prize from the Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards, and was selected by NBC Latino as one of the “10 Great Latino Books of 2015." Her poem “These Hands Which Have Never Picked Cotton” was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize. She is a CantoMundo Fellow and a Hedgebrook writer-in-residence alumna where she wrote a Latino musical, Carmen de la Calle. She received a MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. AmaliaOrtiz.net