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San Antonio Express-News poetry columnist Robert Bonazzi gathers 20 years of reviews and profiles, essays and articles in Outside the Margins. Bonazzi focuses on poets and writers from Texas, the Southwest, Mexico and Latin America. His criticism finds threads of mutual interests, shared sources of inspiration, and stylistic confluences.

A strange history of family secrets, including madness and suicide, emerged along the way, this is the author's memoir of his sixty-year pursuit of Mendez Marks, "a verbal example of a contained-space sculpture." It is a biography wrapped in a memoir wrapped in a psychological case study of a brilliant, original soul.

Features 47 poems and 47 colour photographs that explore the history, culture, and ecology of the state of Mississippi. The epigraph for the book is taken from Theodore Roethke's ""North American Sequence"": ""The imperishable quiet at the heart of form."" This quietness to be found by contemplating the photographs of Maude Schuyler Clay was at the heart of Ann Fisher-Wirth's poetic process.

Includes poems by over 80 poets who remember the '60s from a wide range of vantage points. This collection brings to life the experiences of people who vividly remember the effects of the assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, who lived through the period of the Vietnam War, and who experienced the rise of Second-Wave Feminism, the Civil Rights Act and the emergence of the Black Power Movement.

Describes and revels in the changes in the author's life when he and his wife moved out of San Antonio, into a country place in the small town of Lytle, Texas. Dedicated to the fine Texas poet, Robert Burlingame, West's focus on the dayliness of the natural world and the wonder of it to new eyes, is a celebration in keeping with Burlingame's voice and vision.

Explores the life of the author, from her Depression-era childhood in Tennessee to her adolescence in the Hill Country of Texas, from life as a small town cheerleader to life as a world-travelling author, from the child of a hard scrabble farmer to that of a semi-retired rancher.

This collection of poems documents the evolution of a talented and original Texan poet through his 40-year career. Charles "Chip" Dameron explores the complexities of the inner and outer worlds, whether writing about love, death, a bird's wing, or a painting's energy.

Explores the role of the theatre amid the conflicts of immigration, human rights, citizenship, family, and legacy. From the clash of two theatre troupes on stage - one Italian, and the other composed of foreign actors - a new play emerges, revealing the history of Ancient Rome, its forgotten emperors, entangled cultural heritage, and today's unfolding stories on the Mediterranean Sea.

Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most beloved poets in America, and the poem Famous is literally her most famous poem. At once simple and profound, this illustrated version of the poem is a charmingly ironic take on what it means to be "famous".

Sudeep Sen's Fractals includes a wide swath of his poetry, from 1980 to the present, as well as a representative collection of his translations into English of other poets writing in Bengali, Hindu, Urdu and other languages. Sen's poems are both vivid observations and insightful meditations, often ekphrastic in that they are inspired by other art forms.

A journey into the heart of Mexico and a coming home to the spirit of the author's beloved grandmother, this poetry collection documents travels throughout Mexico as well as Costa Rica, France, and the poet's country of birth, the United States.

From the Chihuahuan deserts of Mexico to the cellars of the Pentagon and the flaming ruins of Iraq, this poetry compilation merges the personal with the political. While retaining an intimate and unembellished tone, it confronts topical issues and explores various universal themes, including aging, coping honestly with regret, dealing with fear, and desiring forgiveness.

Like earlier Margaret Randall poetry collections, this presents a unique poetic voice by a revered elder in the genre. These poems are all about making connections, many of them unexpected. Randall links national events with intimate family moments, ancient ruins with present-day communities, and prehistory with history.

This novel of international espionage begins with a bizarre terrorist attack meant to discredit a secret society. Jack Driscoll, a member of the society, and Israeli security specialist Rachel Green partner up with a sexy but mysterious woman in order to prevent a second attack, this one intended to disrupt a global economic summit in Europe.

This novel explores the underbelly of the almost always politically incorrect world of politics and campaigning in Texas in the 1980s. Rose Marie Ryder made a name for herself by becoming the first female state comptroller of Texas and she is now running to become the first woman US senator from the Lone Star State.

Featuring 25 drawings in charcoal, conte crayons, and pastels, this handbook pairs portraits of people who live and work along the US/Mexico border with bilingual poems that have been inspired by each of the drawings. A testimony to the people of the Rio Grande Valley, these drawings and poems capture their spirit, their quest for happiness, and their struggles to overcome economic hardship.

This is the first collection of poetry by American Book Award winner Pamela Uschuk. Finding Peaches in the Desert won the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council.

Incorporating short prose, photography, and poetry, this memoir celebrates Albuquerque, New Mexico, and recollects how the author's life and the city itself were impacted by Cold War politics, the atomic bomb, McCarthyism, racism, and misogyny. Politically charged, this account highlights inhumane government policies while recounting the history of this Southwestern town.

A vivid depiction of the early injustices encountered by a young Mexican-American girl in San Antonio in the 1920s, this book tells the true story of Emma Tenayuca. Emma Tenayuca's story serves as a model for young and old alike about courage, compassion, and the role everyone can play in making the world more fair.

James Hoggard's new collection of poems is an elegant, highly energetic volume that takes its readers through a wealth of settings, times, and forms. As versatile a poet as there is, Hoggard time and again turns his attention to forms like pantoum and ghazals that heighten the readers' responses to the stories he tells in verse.

Multicultural, multiethnic, and multidisciplinary, Her Texas includes stories, essays, memoirs, poetry, song lyrics, paintings, and photographs by 60 Texas women. Discover women who write with intelligence, humour, pain, and joy of experiences rooted in the far-flung landscapes and cityscapes of Texas.

In this first major collection in nearly a decade from a revered American poet, William Pitt Root concerns himself with those extremes - spiritual, physical, or both - at which social and cultural forms disintegrate, leaving the individual as an unshielded witness to transitioning miracles that induce a state of awe that cannot be diminished, diverted, or ignored.

The more than two dozen personal essays in this new collection by one of Texas's master storytellers range from travel pieces about Havana and London to stories about small-town exotics that are funny, nervy, outlandish, and characterized by James Hoggard's sly wit. Fast-paced, yet at the same time reflective, Hoggard guides his readers into some of the wonderfully strange turns of the world.

The thematic motif found within these poems is one of "knowing": the desire to know the mystery of love in its many forms and depths. Examining daily living, this book's four-section poem sequence is one of immersion into the paradoxical life; familiar yet filled with inexplicable beauty.

A poetry collection about connectivity, this book suggests that humankind is linked by its concerns for global human rights and a sustainable global climate. Named for a root system that connects seemingly separate plants, like a stand of aspen trees, this compilation seeks to celebrate common human roots.

Divided into four sections, Beneath the Halo explores various aspects of Celeste Guzman Mendoza's experience as a Tejana, a native Texan of Mexican-American descent. She brings the landscapes and cultural life of her roots to life by delving into topics fundamental to her Tejana identity-family, land, faith, and marriage.

A compilation of poetry of great beauty and searing honesty, this book consists of two long experimental sequences: the title poem 'Dream Cabinet', set on an island in Sweden, and an eloquent account of the poet's first marriage entitled 'Answers I Did Not Give to the Annulment Questionnaire'.