Product Description: Poetry. "Tino Villanueva's new collection of poems is special among examples of the literary reception of Homer's Odyssey. It is the most extensive and intensive effort to give the longing wife of Odysseus a poetic voice of her own throughout the twenty years of her waiting during her husband's absence from home...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Latino Studies. Translated by Lisa Horowitz. PRIMERA CAUSA/ FIRST CAUSE, the newest book in the Cross-Cultural Review Chapbook Series, is a cycle of meditations on art and memory: And I think how telling about memory/ is really telling about desire,/ the very heart of everything I go saving/ with words,/ these words so in love with this paper (To Live From Desire)...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Latino Studies. Translated by Lisa Horowitz. PRIMERA CAUSA/ FIRST CAUSE, the newest book in the Cross-Cultural Review Chapbook Series, is a cycle of meditations on art and memory: And I think how telling about memory/ is really telling about desire,/ the very heart of everything I go saving/ with words,/ these words so in love with this paper (To Live From Desire)...read more

Product Description: Poetry/Spanish (untranslated), English and Spanglish. First published in 1984 by Arte Publico, Shaking Off the Dark has become one of the classics of Chicano literature. This new, corrected edition features poems not included in the first edition, as well as an introduction and bibilography...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As a Chicano writer working in Spanish, Tino Villanueva explores experience in the tongue that was the first European language spoken in and around his Texas homeland. Villanueva voices complex and compelling historical, literary, and cultural questions as impassioned personal utterances, investing this collection with intimacy and seriousness...read more

Product Description: El origen del término chicano podrá ser oscuro, pero el empleo que se le da es muy claro.