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A seminal work in Latin America's modernismo movement, this first anthology of verse by José Martí 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.

This poetry collection is edgy, harsh, brutal, and frank but remains leavened with an insightful wit. Featuring radical stylistics and themes recalling the work of Richard Brautigan and John Berryman during the 1960s, the volume's bond between the visual and verbal arts is clearly paramount.

Highlighting work from the 1990s into the new millennium, Robert Bonazzi's fifth book of poems--his first in 20 years--draws upon the slow-gathering wisdom of late middle age. These poems are dialogues between the clockwork of ego and timeless solitude and between earthly intimacy and the death of loved ones, lucid discourses on global politics and besieged communities, and witty takes on poetics and the arts. Often considered one of the unsun...

Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous book, the bestselling "Black Like Me." Living in exile in Mexico at the time, along with his young family and aging parents, Griffin had been forced from his home town of Mansfield, Texas, by death threats from local white racists. Knowing...

A vivid depiction of the early injustices encountered by a young Mexican-American girl in San Antonio in the 1920's, this book tells the true story of Emma Tenayuca. Emma learns to care deeply about poverty and hunger during a time when many Mexican Americans were starving to death and working unreasonably long hours at slave wages in the city's pecan-shelling factories. Through astute perception, caring, and personal action, Emma begins to ge...

Told in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination.

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The Poesia Tejana Prize is given to Texas Latina poets under the age of 30.

The Poesia Tejana Prize is given to Texas Latina poets under the age of 30.

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The Poesia Tejana Prize is given to Texas Latina poets under the age of 30.

Accompanied by a 48-page booklet, this CD features poems in English and Bengali, as well as contemporary music from India.

A tour-de-force of complex form, this novel explores the politics of body and text, desire and distraction, and the texture that dictates topography and cartography.

This gripping novel of adventure, love, and religious persecution follows the life and flight of a Jew under the Spanish Inquisition.

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

This well-rounded collection presents north Texas flavor in short stories and a novella.