Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Facing page translations from the Spanish by the author. These sensuous and passionate poems explore one of the many strands of contemporary Latino immigrant experience, dancing the tropical sensibility of Puerto Rico among Chicago's concrete and broken glass.. read more

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. TALK SHOWS is accomplished translator Monica de la Torre's first book of original poetry in English. "De la Torre's poetry deconstructs sets of beliefs about what it means to be a multi-dimensional subject and turns markers of gender and race on their so-called ears.. read more

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. In her collection of poetry, EXILIANA, Mariela Griffor expresses her innermost thoughts in words of not her mother tongue in rich, beautiful, passionate verse unlike any other documentary or memoir produced that reflects upon the devastation, loss and casualties - both mortally and emotionally - of civil unrest.. read more

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Wendy Burk. "We hear a subtle call and response in Tedi's work. Private event and history and the sensual world prompt each other and choir to suggest not predictable epiphanies, but a congeries of provocative ambiguity that only coheres between light and the trace of a gesture.. read more

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Translated from the Spanish by D.M. Stroud and a preface and afterword by Elias Nandino. Xavier Villaurrutia (1903-1950) was the most distinguished member of Mexico's most celebrated literary group, the Contemporaneos.. read more

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Ideological intention meets ideological surprise in TO LEVELING SWERVE, Rodrigo Toscano's fourth book of poetry. While continuing to develop his overriding concern with poem as radical social interface, TO LEVELING SWERVE extends a notion of poetic diction that is neither exclusively a problematic of aesthetics, nor enjoined to any one culture as interpretive key, running instead as a volatile commingling of the two.. read more

Poetry. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Courtney Martin of Writer Magazine has said that Xavier's work is in many ways "a call to redefine American-ness." Xavier's poetry strives to display how complex and multi-dimensional the American experience can be.. read more

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Gathered in honor of the centennial of his birth, this selection of Neruda's work was carefully organized by a team of poets, prominent scholars, and renowned translators. Drawing from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes, nearly every poem has been thoughfully revisited or completely retranslated.. read more

Poetry. Latino/Latina studies. Alberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poems--set in a town that straddles the US/Mexico border--are lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, between cultures, between languages, between senses.. read more

Fiction. Translated from the Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan. Illusrated by Luci Mistratov. QUICK FIX: SUDDEN FICTION, a bilingual collection of short fiction by Ana Maria Shua, reflects the poet's ingenious blending of precise language, incisive humor, and incredible imagination into a unique style of sudden fiction..read more

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Portugese by Elizabeth Jackson. In THE FIVE SEASONS OF LOVE, acclaimed Brazilian writer Joao Almino presents a compelling and sympathetic portrait of a woman whose life has not turned out as she anticipated, and whose once audacious dreams have been replaced by half-truths, failures, and frustration..read more

Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the "price of fire" - access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources..read more

Cultural Writing. Essays. Latino/Latina Studies. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldua's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity..read more

Autobiography. Latino/a Studies. BAREFOOT HEART is a vividly told autobiographical account of the life of a child growing up in a family of migrant farm workers. Elva Trevino Hart was born in south Texas to Mexican immigrants and spent her childhood moving back and forth between Texas and Minnesota, eventually leaving that world to earn a master's degree in computer science/engineering..read more