From a tribute to Frieda Kahlo to an interview with an Aztec goddess, an acclaimed Mexican-American poet draws on the oral and lyrical traditions of Mexico to celebrate women--secular and sacred, ancient and modern.

Poems deal with Mexican American culture, mythology, and history, and evoke the author's impressions of the Texas landscape

Explores life along the Mexican-American border and the experience of being caught between two cultures. (view table of contents)

Explores life along the Mexican-American border and the experience of being caught between two cultures.

Demetria Martínez has entered the public consciousness by way of the heart. In 1994, she captured a Western States Book Award with her first novel, Mother Tongue, which went on to win widespread national attention. Now, in Breathing between the Lines, the writer returns to poetry, her first love. Many of the poems in this book touch on the themes from Mother Tongue, about an American activist who falls in love with a Salvadoran political refugee. Weaving together threads of love and family, social conviction and activism, loss and renewal, Breathing between the Lines carries the reader deep inside the head and heart of a talented Chicana writer. Page by page, the journey is an exhilarating one. What we find at the end is up to us.

Product Description: Poetry. Villanueva's poems fuse the personal and the political, anchoring the abstract in the sensual world and revealing a belief in the power of language to connect us to the world, to each other, and to ourselves. "We are all witness to our human history," (from "Witness"), and Villanueva's witnessing takes the form of honest poems that employ a clarity of perception to inspire their readers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The author of Peel My Love Like an Onion presents an evocative new collection of poetry that celebrates the diverse strengths of women, as she writes about heroism, motherhood, the power of love, grief, loss, and the ability to overcome the impossible. Original. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Reflecting a multiplicity of moods and images, this spirited collection of poetry celebrates the varied feminine aspects of love, from the erotic to the reflective. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

A collection of poetry attests to the author's original passion and reveals her talent for employing the precision and musicality of language in verses both comic and sad

Product Description: poetry, Zamora's long-awaited 2nd book

Product Description: "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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)