Author: Joe Jiménez
Publisher: Arte Público Press
ISBN: 1518500560
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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In his junior year, seventeen-year-old Abraham learns how to drive a stick shift. He falls in love for the first time. And he has been in three fights and suspended twice, all before Thanksgiving. His grandmother fears the hard future that awaits him, so she invites her son—the one with a fat police file who has hurt his mother so many times—back into the house, and he is determined to make a man of his nephew. Meanwhile, Abraham’s feelings for his friend Ophelia grow, and she tries to understand why he fights. “This will end badly,” she warns. At school, Abraham learns about genetics, and he wonders if people are born bad. Is it in their DNA? Was he born to punch and kick and scream and fight and destroy things because of the genes in his body? Is that what happened to his father? All he knows is that his father is dead and his mother is gone. “Jiménez explores shades of manhood and all it entails with a deft, poetic hand.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Joe Jiménez’s writing has astonished me and made me sit up and pay attention since the first time I heard him read his work out loud. He continues to make me yearn to hear what he has to say in a voice that is at once masculine, tender, brave and beautiful. I am his longtime fan.”—Sandra Cisneros, poet, essayist, novelist “Joe Jiménez extiende chingazos unafraid and painfully poetic in this story of love, loss and family. I constantly felt a tension waiting for the collapse of Abram and his world; wanting to shield my eyes but not being able to. In Bloodline everything is beautiful and everything hurts, as it is whenever we chase that kind of truth and love that is always within our reach but still too far away.”—Isabel Quintero, author of Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
Author: Natalia Treviño
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985133757
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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This book of poetry "is a remove from other Texas writers in its capacity to encompass the globe, as Chicana poetry should in the new millennium."-- Sandra Cisneros.
Author: Robert Bonazzi
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609404785
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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"A collection of literary criticism by one of the major Texas critics. The literature covered includes mainly Texas, the Southwest, and Latin America, from 1980 to 2015"--
Author: Michael Patrick Cullinane
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474437338
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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World-leading experts take a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump, are remembered in film, museums, public art, political invocations, pop culture, literature and evolving technological advancements.
Author: Ruben Quesada
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826364381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice. At the heart of this anthology lies the intersection of history, language, and the human experience. The collection explores the ways in which a people's history and language are vital to the development of a poet's imagination and insists that the meaning and value of poetry are necessary to understand the history and future of a people. The Latinx community is not a monolith, and accordingly the poets assembled here vary in style, language, and nationality. The pieces selected expose the depth of existing verse and scholarship by poets and scholars including Brenda Cárdenas, Daniel Borzutzky, Orlando Menes, and over a dozen more. The essays not only expand the poetic landscape but extend Latinx and Latin American linguistic and geographical boundaries. Writers, educators, and students will find awareness, purpose, and inspiration in this one-of-a-kind anthology.
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Author: Natalia Treviño
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781635346527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Author: Marie Arana
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0385336659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this miraculous novel his dream has come true—until he discovers the recipe for cellophane. In a life already filled with signs and portents, the family dog suddenly begins to cough strangely. A wild little boy turns azurite blue. All at once Don Victor is overwhelmed by memories of his erotic past; his prim wife, Doña Mariana, reveals the shocking truth about her origins; the three Sobrevilla children turn their love lives upside down; the family priest blurts out a long-held secret.... A hilarious plague of truth has descended on the once well-behaved Sobrevillas, only the beginning of this brilliantly realized, generous-hearted novel. Marie Arana’s style, originality, and trenchant wit will establish her as one of the most audacious talents in fiction today and Cellophane as one of the most evocative and spirited novels of the year.
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Author: Nasario García
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Comadres celebrates a way of life, a generation of women, and a regional language whose contribution to New Mexican history and culture has long been overlooked. Twelve women pay tribute to Hispana experiences on the farms and ranches of the Rio Puerco Valley during the first decades of statehood. Branding cows, birthing children, washing sheets, and building walls, the hands of these women shaped the world in which they lived; their stories make an ongoing legacy of culture and lifeways.Garcia transcribes the women's remembrances in a regional Spanish remarkable for its faithfulness to the spoken word. This Spanish is richly dialectic and a vital thread in the varied tapestry that is New Mexican language. English translations and glossary encourage readers with linguistic interest to compare regional variations with standard Spanish.
