 | Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy
Publication Date: February 1, 1997First collection from the Latino/Chicano trio Culture Clash. ...
 |  | When Living Was a Labor Camp (Camino del Sol)
Publication Date: July 1, 2000| Series: Camino del Sol "I write what I eat and smell," says Diana García, and her words are a bountiful harvest. Her poems color the page with the vibrancy and sweetness of figs, the freshness of tortillas, and the sensuality of language. In this, García's first collection of poems, she takes a bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there. Writing from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, she catapults the reader into the lives of the campesinos with their daily joys and s...
|  | Pilgrims in Aztlan (Chicano Classics)
Publication Date: January 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0927534231 | ISBN-13: 978-0927534239novel, US, tr David William Foster ...
|  | Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction
Publication Date: February 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0938317636 | ISBN-13: 978-0938317630| Edition: 1st "Home isn't just a place, it is also a language."Born in Tijuana, the son of an Anglo woman and a Mexican father, Urrea says that "Home isn't just a place, it is also a language." In these six stories—each wandering beneath different kinds of sky, from the thick Mazatlan starry night to the wide open spaces of the Sioux Nation in South Dakota—Urrea maps the spiritual geography of what he calls "home.""I always thought Luis Urrea was six skies rolled into one (I mean that in a good ...
|  | The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
Publication Date: May 4, 2007Manuel Munoz's dazzling collection is set in a Mexican-American neighborhood in central California-a place where misunderstandings and secrets shape people's lives. From a set of triplets with three distinct fates to a father who places his hope-and life savings-in the hands of a faith healer, the characters in these stories cross paths in unexpected ways. As they do, they reveal a community that is both embracing and unforgiving, and they discover a truth about the nature of home: you always live with its history. Munoz is an explosive new talent who joins the r...
|  | The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (Camino del Sol)
Publication Date: April 5, 2007| Series: Camino del Sol Join us across the nation with The Wind Shifts ON TOURThe Wind Shifts gathers, for the first time, works by emerging Latino and Latina poets in the twenty-first century. Here readers will discover 25 new and vital voices including Naomi Ayala, Richard Blanco, David Dominguez, Gina Franco, Sheryl Luna, and Urayoán Noel. All of the writers included in this volume have published poetry in well-regarded literary magazines. Some have published chapbooks or first collections, but none had published more than one book at the time of...
|  | Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel
Release Date: April 25, 2006Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel García Márquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colón family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future. Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television, but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dal...
|  | Alburquerque: A Novel
Publication Date: February 16, 2006Alburquerque is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family. . . . There is a marvelous tapestry of interwoven myth and magic that guides Anaya's characters' sensibilities, and is equally important in defining their feel of place. Above all, in this novel is a deep caring for land and culture and for the spiritual well-being of people, environment, landscape.'--John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel'. . . Alburquerque portra...
|  | The Woman I Kept to Myself
Publication Date: April 5, 2011The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life. In these seventy-five autobiographical poems, Alvarez’s clear voice sings out in every line. Here, in the middle of her life, she looks back as a way of understanding and celebrating the woman she has become. ...
|  | Sister Teresa
Release Date: March 22, 2007Spoiled with beauty, riches, and adoration, a young girl fromÀvila is sent to a convent by her parents to learn discipline, butdiscovers instead an unparalleled spiritual fervor-- one so powerful as tobe condemned as sinful by some. She is Saint Teresa--known as a mystic,reformer and founder of convents, and the author of numerous texts thatintroduced her radical religious ideas and practices to a society sufferingthrough the repressive throes of the Spanish Inquisition. In BarbaraMujica’s masterful tale, her story--her days of youthful romance, hersensu...
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