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Blending the personal with the political, these poems explore the deleterious effects of adversity and trauma on a global scale, focusing on such subjects as immigration laws, environmental degradation, multinational corporate greed, and the effects of war on women and children. The poet makes unexpected connections between disparate things, drawing from wild nature for imagery while also passionately engaging the reader to become aware of injustice and suffering at home and abroad. The poems are crafted using lyrical language that is at once precise, figurative, and celebratory, creating a collection that is humanitarian and emotionally resonate.

It is the late 1970s, and Argentina is wracked by the worst excesses of its "Dirty Wars” as thousands have disappeared or have been tortured and murdered by a dying dictatorship. Luz Goldman, on the other hand, lives in a Buenos Aires bubble of wealth and privilege where such horrors are simply ignored. Luz is precocious yet solipsistic, rich yet disaffected. She and her friends spend their allowances on expensive drugs, their unfettered days having casual sex. Written in stark language that echoes the unsentimental, bored mind of a young teen, this novel highlights a generations need to ignore the realities of a politically disturbed Latin American country.

Partially autobiographical, this translation of the Spanish Patas de Avestruz is a masterpiece of introspective, linguistically innovative fiction about the relationship between two sisters?one severely handicapped, the other gifted yet overlooked. Mariana is four years older than her sister Alcira, but Mariana is seriously disabled and slowly dying. Conveying the experience of a physically messy process, this account points out the flaws in adult society through the point-of-view of its child protagonist. At its core, the novel is about the abuse of power and its consequences?whether that abuse is by a government, a parent, or a child.

In the late 1960s in Austin, Texas, Theo Isaac is grappling with being both recently widowed and retired from a professorship he loved, taking refuge from his life at the Elisabet Ney sculpture museum. Rose Davis, a student from his distant past, returns to Austin after her nonconformist life in Paris falls apart. Together they find that discovering unexpected futures is not just for the young.

In the north Texas oil-boom town of Kiowa Falls, civilization is just beginning to overtake frontier chaos. Ru-Marie, the daughter of the town's mayor, is a well-read, young romantic and budding artist. Her tastes in love-her parents insist-are less refined. As they throw off the sham of sophistication, a family war erupts and, with it, frontier justice.

Lorna Dee Cervantes is a pivotal figure throughout the Chicano literary movement. This gathers 30 years' worth of essays and articles about her as well as interviews with her. It explores the boundaries between language and experience and features a new collection of poems by the dynamic poet.

Flavoured by the author's Chicana and Native American roots, this poetry collection explores eroticism and sensuality while keeping to the confines of 100 words. Simultaneously intelligent and humorous, this book investigates the themes of passion and desire as it conveys intense political ideas and reactions.

Set in 1834, this historical novel follows the adventures of two young Irish brothers and their families and friends as they endure the hardships and joys of immigrating to the Texas frontier.

This hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation.

Deeply personal as well as visionary and funny, this collection is reminiscent of both Plath and Thoreau.

A seminal work in Latin America's modernismo movement, this first anthology of verse by Jose Marti is available in a complete English translation for the first time. This accessible, annotated edition includes a critical introduction, presented in both English and Spanish, which explores the volume's historical and literary contexts and addresses issues of the translation.

Based on research and historical facts, this title portrays Robert Burns' life at the height of his fame from 1784 to 1788 as spontaneous, passionate, and sexual. It is the portrait of a man often misguided by the 'witching voice' that motivated him - a drive composed of the same charms, demons, and shortcomings that nurtured his remarkable gifts.

Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham's recordings in Denmark, this book-length poem traces the story of the Texan's career performing with the greatest musicians of the bop and hard bop eras in jazz history.

Written in a modern and experimental style, this poetry contemplates the aesthetics of faith. Often drawing from Bible stories, the poems indirectly allude to Christian themes and create extended metaphors that spill from one poem to another.

San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometown-the city of her ancestors for the past three centuries-in poems that celebrate its history as a cosmopolitan multilingual cultural crossroads. Discover San Antonio's corazon in Tafolla's poetry, accompanied by historic and contemporary photographs that convey its enduring sense of place.

On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own--he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the single most important documentation of 20th-century American racism ever written. More than 50 years later, this newly edited edition--which is based on the original manuscript and includes a new design and added afterword--gives fresh life to what is still considered a "contemporary book." The story that earned respect from civil rights leaders and death threats from many others endures today as one of the great human--and humanitarian--documents of the era. In this new century, when terrorism is too often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation or religion, and the first black president of the United States is subject to hateful slurs, this record serves as a reminder that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. This is the story of a man who opened his eyes and helped an entire nation to do likewise.

This collection of poems begins in Tehran, Iran, and ends in San Antonio, Texas, with plenty of stops along the way to observe people, places, and nature, and to gather stories. Saidi is a great storyteller, and his poems are rich with the lives of people he has met around the globe.

Offering a powerful-but-playful portrait of urban teens - especially teens of colour - this collection of poetry is at once rife with contemporary issues as well as the timeless challenges of high school. Whether focusing on topics such as troubled families, racism in the streets, and depression or boy-girl obsession, sports triumphs, and personal achievement, Angela Shelf Medearis writes with wry humour and a direct honesty.