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The Soviet Circus Comes to Havana and Other Stories

Product Description: Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Virgil SuÃ¡rez's latest short story collection, his first in more than two decades, is subversive and emotionally piercing. A man whose yard is plagued by armadillos, a pair of boys who torment scorpions with gasoline fires, and a father's best friend wasting away with an illness as a son watches the deterioration with fascination and disgust...read more

By Virgil Suarez

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9781936196159 | C & R Pr, March 1, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Fiction.

Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology

Product Description: This landmark first anthology of Cuban-American literature is not a symphony of the exile or immigrant generation; rather this is a medley of voices -- narrators, essayists and poets -- staking their claim on part of the American literary mosaic with Pulitzer Prizes and other awards in hand...read more

By Delia Poey (editor) and Virgil Suarez (editor)

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9781558851603 | Arte Publico Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A gathering of poetry, fiction, essays, and drama representing contemporary Cuban American writing

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9781439505809 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This landmark first anthology of Cuban-American literature is not a symphony of the exile or immigrant generation; rather this is a medley of voices -- narrators, essayists and poets -- staking their claim on part of the American literary mosaic with Pulitzer Prizes and other awards in hand.

Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets

Product Description: "Readers should be prepared for weeping, laughing, and awe."âHarvard Review A definitive anthology of the best United States Latino and Latina poets from diverse origins in the Latin world: Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Puerto Rico: Julia Alvarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Juan Felipe Herrera, Pat Mora, Alberto Alvaro RÃos, Luis J...read more

By Victor Hernandez Cruz, Leroy Quintana (editor) and Virgil Suarez (editor)

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9780892552016 | 1 edition (Persea Books, October 1, 1994), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems by such writers as Julia Alvarez and Lucha Corpi on topics including love, death, and ethnicity

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9781439505465 | 1 reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $22.95 | also contains Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets | About this edition: "Readers should be prepared for weeping, laughing, and awe.

90 Miles: Selected And New Poems

Product Description: Ninety miles separate Cuba and Key West, Florida. Crossing that distance, thousands of Cubans have lost their lives. For Cuban American poet Virgil SuÃ¡rez, that expanse of ocean represents the state of exile, which he has imaginatively bridged in over two decades of compelling poetry...read more

By Virgil Suarez

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9780822958802 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, May 1, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Ninety miles separate Cuba and Key West, Florida.

Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America

An anthology of the finest contemporary poetry on the subject of America furnishes evocative roadmaps of American history that reflect the collective memory and spirit of its citizens, in a volume that features works by Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, Gary Soto, Paisley Rekdal, Walt McDonald, Lola Haskins, and other poets. Simultaneous.

By Virgil Suarez (editor) and Ryan G. Van Cleave (editor)

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9780877459170 | Univ of Iowa Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $41.00 | About this edition: Red, White, and Blues, a new anthology from the award-winning editors of Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America and Vespers: Contemporary American Poems of Religion and Spirituality, offers a chorus of contemporary American poets on the idea of liberty, democracy, patriotism, and the American Dream - a twenty-first-century "Song of Myself" for the entire country.

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9780877459187 | Univ of Iowa Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: An anthology of the finest contemporary poetry on the subject of America furnishes evocative roadmaps of American history that reflect the collective memory and spirit of its citizens, in a volume that features works by Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, Gary Soto, Paisley Rekdal, Walt McDonald, Lola Haskins, and other poets.

Vespers: Contemporary American Poems of Religion and Spirituality

Product Description: This anthology of poems, by 50 contemporary American poets, cuts to the heart of our theological and spiritual underpinnings. From deathbed spirituals to initiation songs and transformative ballads, they help us realize we are not alone.

By Virgil Suarez (editor) and Ryan G. Van Cleave (editor)

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9780877458753 | Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This anthology of poems, by 50 contemporary American poets, cuts to the heart of our theological and spiritual underpinnings.

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9780877458555 | Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: This anthology of poems, by 50 contemporary American poets, cuts to the heart of our theological and spiritual underpinnings.

Infinite Refuge

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By Virgil Suarez

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9781558853485 | Arte Publico Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $14.95

Guide to the Blue Tongue: Poems

Product Description: Shimmering with saturated color and heat, "Guide to the Blue Tongue" is an intoxicating sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Caliban is the monstrous native, in love with what he cannot possess, lost to his own sense of identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Virgil Suarez

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9780252027345 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $35.00

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9780252070501 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Shimmering with saturated color and heat, "Guide to the Blue Tongue" is an intoxicating sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's "The Tempest".

Latin Jazz

Product Description: Latin Jazz blends Anglo and Hispanic tempos as it chronicles a Cuban Ã©migrÃ© family's hopes and sorrows in making a new home in Los Angeles. Men from three generations alternate in telling their family story, which culminates in the dramatic refugee boat lift from Mariel Harbor, Cuba, to Miami in 1980: Hugo, a political prisoner still trying to escape Cuba for America; his father, Esteban, settled almost twenty years in California but longing to return his wife's ashes to their homeland; Angel, Esteban's son-in-law, who dreams of bigger things than the ice-cream truck concession he operates in L...read more

By Virgil Suarez

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9780688084752 | William Morrow & Co, February 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Captures the experience of three generations of a family during the Cuban boat exodus from Mariel--grandfather Esteban safely settled in California, his daughter and son-in-law and his grandson, all seeking the good life on American soil

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9780807127902 | Reprint edition (Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Latin Jazz blends Anglo and Hispanic tempos as it chronicles a Cuban Ã©migrÃ© family's hopes and sorrows in making a new home in Los Angeles.

9780671705350 | Reprint edition (Fireside, June 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This tale of three generations of a Cuban-American family examines how they try to maintain the memories of their homeland, yet succeed in America

Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America

Poets from across America confront violent events in this moving collection of 140 poems from 120 writers dealing with Waco, Columbine, Oklahoma City, and other acts of extreme violence. (view table of contents)

By Virgil Suarez (editor) and Ryan G. Van Cleave (editor)

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9780877457916 | Univ of Iowa Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Poets from across America confront violent events in this collection of 140 poems from 120 writers dealing with Waco, Columbine, Oklahoma City, and other acts of extreme violence.

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9780877457923 | Univ of Iowa Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Poets from across America confront violent events in this collection of 140 poems from 120 writers dealing with Waco, Columbine, Oklahoma City, and other acts of extreme violence.

Banyan: Poems

Product Description: Like the tree of its title, Virgil Suarez's dazzling new sequence of poems sends tendrils of memory and desire deep into the rich soil of a Havana childhood and the post-Revolution Cuban diaspora. Amid the uncertainty and loss of immigrant exile in Florida, where "a father's hand clutches / any dirt it can call its own," the single trunk of the banyan sends branches downward into the earth to become themselves sturdy trunks--fathers and sons, same fibers, same blood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780807127070 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Like the tree of its title, Virgil Suarez's dazzling new sequence of poems sends tendrils of memory and desire deep into the rich soil of a Havana childhood and the post-Revolution Cuban diaspora.

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9780807127087 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $16.95

Palm Crows

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By Virgil Suarez

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9780816520992 | Univ of Arizona Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $16.95

American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement

A collection of poems about dislocation explores the notion of 'diaspora'--both physical and emotional--and delves into themes of sensitivity, tenderness, and rebellion. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)

By Virgil Suarez (editor) and Ryan G. Van Cleave (editor)

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9780877457466 | Univ of Iowa Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $44.95

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9780877457473 | Univ of Iowa Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems about dislocation explores the notion of 'diaspora'--both physical and emotional--and delves into themes of sensitivity, tenderness, and rebellion.

Little Havana Blues

A gathering of poetry, fiction, essays, and drama representing contemporary Cuban American writing

By Virgil Suarez (editor)

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9780613028950 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $30.35 | About this edition: A gathering of poetry, fiction, essays, and drama representing contemporary Cuban American writing

In the Republic of Longing: Poems

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By Virgil Suarez

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9780927534895 | Bilingual Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $11.00

The Cutter

Product Description: When young Julian Campos attempted to leave Cuba five years ago, the Castro regime allowed his parents to travel on, but kept him back at the last moment. Julian was forced to become a cutter, laboring day after day in the muddy sugarcane fields...read more

By Virgil Suarez

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9781558852495 | Arte Publico Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: When young Julian Campos attempted to leave Cuba five years ago, the Castro regime allowed his parents to travel on, but kept him back at the last moment.

9780345368591, titled "Cutter" | Available Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Julian Campos, a young Cuban who had been sent to the countryside to cut sugar cane when his parents left the country, will risk everything when he hears of a boat that could take him to the United States

You Come Singing

Product Description: Virgil Suarez speaks with intimacy and urgency of a life lived as an outsider, a life filled with dislocation and alienation born of exile. He writes with great pathos and passion, often anger, but always with the good-natured humor of a troubadour and the keen eye of a fool for life, for love...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781882688197 | Tia Chucha Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Virgil Suarez speaks with intimacy and urgency of a life lived as an outsider, a life filled with dislocation and alienation born of exile.

Spared Angola: Memories from a Cuban-American Childhood

Product Description: The moving collection evokes the agony and frustration borne of growing up in terminal exile and cultural limbo. But, from anguish and turmoil, the artist has wrought inspiration and crafted one of the most eloquent and commanding voices of contemporary Latin American literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Virgil Suarez

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9781558851979 | Arte Publico Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The moving collection evokes the agony and frustration borne of growing up in terminal exile and cultural limbo.

Going Under: A Novel

Caught between two cultures, Xavier Cuevas, a Cuban yuppie, pursues the American dream, but ends up not satisfying his parents, his ex-wife, or himself

By Virgil Suarez

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9781558851597 | Arte Publico Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Caught between two cultures, Xavier Cuevas, a Cuban yuppie, pursues the American dream, but ends up not satisfying his parents, his ex-wife, or himself

Havana Thursdays: A Novel

The family of Zacarias Torres has to come to terms with turbulent emotions they had previously chose to ignore when he dies of a massive heart attack

By Virgil Suarez

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9781558851436 | Arte Publico Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The family of Zacarias Torres has to come to terms with turbulent emotions they had previously chose to ignore when he dies of a massive heart attack

Welcome to the Oasis and Other Stories

Product Description: The novella and five stories center on life in the United States as seen through the eyes of a recent arrival from the Mariel boat lift. Culture clash, linguistic confusion, the search for the American Dream continue to be fertile ground in this finely tempered and celebratory collection...read more

By Virgil Suarez

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9781558850439 | Arte Publico Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $9.50 | About this edition: The novella and five stories center on life in the United States as seen through the eyes of a recent arrival from the Mariel boat lift.

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