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Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler

Product Description: Raucous adobe hearts and urban violet mascara. Televised immigration games and ethnic sit-coms. Chile con karma served on a bed of race. In a startling melange of poetry, prose, journal entries, and even a screenplay, Zen Chicano desperado Juan Felipe Herrera fixes his gaze on his own life and times to craft his most personal work to date...read more

By Juan Felipe Herrera

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9780816522156 | Univ of Arizona Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Raucous adobe hearts and urban violet mascara.

Elegies in Blue: Poems

Themes of childhood, family, restlessness, and alienation are addressed in twenty-four prose poems set in the Mexican-American Border Region. (view table of contents)

By Benjamin Alire Saenz

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9780938317647 | 1 edition (Cinco Puntos Pr, February 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Themes of childhood, family, restlessness, and alienation are addressed in twenty-four prose poems set in the Mexican-American Border Region.

From the Other Side of Night / Del Otro Lado De La Noche: New and Selected Poems

Product Description: On the other side of night, Francisco AlarcÃ³n is waiting. One of Chicano literature's premier poets, AlarcÃ³n has brought his luminous images to the page in such acclaimed volumes as Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes and Snake Poems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Francisco X. Alarcon

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9780816522309 | Bilingual edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, February 1, 2002), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: On the other side of night, Francisco AlarcÃ³n is waiting.

From the Other Side of Night / Del Otro Lado De La Noche: New and Selected Poems

The Chicano poet offers a collection of poems from the last fifteen years, including fourteen new works that discuss love, sex, and AIDS.

By Francisco X. Alarcon and Francisco Aragon (trans)

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9780816521807 | Bilingual edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, February 1, 2002), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The Chicano poet offers a collection of poems from the last fifteen years, including fourteen new works that discuss love, sex, and AIDS.

Palabras De Mediodia: Noon Words

Poems in Spanish and English translation discuss the author's childhood in Mexico and her life in the United States, cultural change, the status of women, social reform, love, death, and other topics.

By Lucha Corpi and Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto (trans)

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9781558853225 | Bilingual edition (Arte Publico Pr, May 1, 2001), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poems in Spanish and English translation discuss the author's childhood in Mexico and her life in the United States, cultural change, the status of women, social reform, love, death, and other topics.

Giraffe on Fire

Product Description: First Place co-winner, Best Poetry, Latino Literary Hall of Fame A poetic collage of voices, genres, and time-spaces. A display of power over language and rhythm. A postmodern performance of naked figures hanging in the nebulae of a militarized universe...read more

By Juan Felipe Herrera

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9780816519859 | Univ of Arizona Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: First Place co-winner, Best Poetry, Latino Literary Hall of Fame A poetic collage of voices, genres, and time-spaces.

Cue Lazarus

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By Carl Marcum

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9780816520749 | Univ of Arizona Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $16.95

Set This Book on Fire

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By Jimmy Santiago Baca

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9781891812231 | 2 edition (Cedar Hill Pubns, November 1, 2000), cover price $15.00

My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults, 1984-1999

More than sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, include such titles as 'The Young Sor Juana,' 'Graduation Morning,' 'Border Town 1938,' 'Legal Alien,' 'Abuelita Magic,' and 'In the Blood.'

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Reinforced:

9780606192569 | Demco Media, October 1, 2000, cover price $21.35 | About this edition: Collects over sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, including 'The Young Sor Juana,' 'Graduation Morning,' 'Border Town 1938,' 'Legal Alien,' 'Abuelita Magic,' and 'In the Blood.

When Living Was a Labor Camp

Product Description: "I write what I eat and smell," says Diana GarcÃa, 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, GarcÃa'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)

By Diana Garcia

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9780816520435 | Univ of Arizona Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "I write what I eat and smell," says Diana GarcÃa, and her words are a bountiful harvest.

Selected Poetry of Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo

Product Description: Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. At last Cecilio GarcAAa-Camarillo has consented to the publication of this volume spanning three decades of creation, from the 1970s through the 1990s. The Line, GarcAAa-Camarillo's longest single work, is reproduced in its entirety...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Cecilio Garcia Camarillo and Enrique R. Lamadrid (introduced by)

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9781558852815 | Arte Publico Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

Turtle Pictures

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By Ray Gonzalez

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9780816519644 | Univ of Arizona Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $35.00

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9780816519668 | Univ of Arizona Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $17.95

9780061070068, titled "Little House on the Prairie" | Harpercollins, October 1, 1953, cover price $3.50 | also contains Little House on the Prairie

UN Trip Through the Mind Jail: Y Otras Excursion

Product Description: Here is the long-awaited second edition of a pioneer work of Chicano literature, originally published as a collection in 1980 after individual poems by Salinas had appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and anthologies from the 1960s through the 1970s...read more

By Raulrsalinas

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9781558852754 | Arte Publico Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Here is the long-awaited second edition of a pioneer work of Chicano literature, originally published as a collection in 1980 after individual poems by Salinas had appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and anthologies from the 1960s through the 1970s.

Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives

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By Juan Felipe Herrera and Artemio Rodriguez

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9780872863590 | City Lights Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $18.95

So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks: Poems

Product Description: An astonishing new talent, Rigoberto Gonzalez writes with a clarity of the senses that pulls the reader into a marvelous and unfamiliar world. The sidewalk preacher, the umbrella salesman, the nurse on the graveyard shift, the professional mourner - all allow Gonzalez, a clandestine glimpse of their lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

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9780252067983 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An astonishing new talent, Rigoberto Gonzalez writes with a clarity of the senses that pulls the reader into a marvelous and unfamiliar world.

Great Whirl of Exile

Product Description: For those who know his history, it is no surprise that Leroy V. Quintana is a great story-teller in his poetry. He was raised in Albuquerque by Mexican grandparents who told him numerous folk-tales (Cuentos) as a child. "In many ways, I'ms till basically a small-town New Mexico boy carrying on the oral tradition," he comments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Leroy Quintana

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9781880684603 | Curbstone Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: For those who know his history, it is no surprise that Leroy V.

Border-Crosser With a Lamborghini Dream

Product Description: From one of the prominent Chicano poets writing today comes a collection of poems to take your breath away. With dazzling speed and energy, Juan Felipe Herrera sends readers rocketing through verbal space in a celebration of the rhythms and textures of words that will make you want to shout, dance, and read out loud...read more

By Juan Felipe Herrera

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9780816519323 | Univ of Arizona Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From one of the prominent Chicano poets writing today comes a collection of poems to take your breath away.

The Obsidian Ranfla

By Anthony Vigil

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9781880834435 | Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center, March 1, 1999, cover price $12.00

Border-Crosser With a Lamborghini Dream: Poems

By Juan Felipe Herrera

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9780816519316 | Univ of Arizona Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From one of the prominent Chicano poets writing today comes a collection of poems to take your breath away.

Cabato Sentora: Poems

Product Description: Poems of psychological transition evoking magical realism in the tradition of Garcia Marquez. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ray Gonzalez

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9781880238707 | Boa Editions, January 1, 1999, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Poems of psychological transition evoking magical realism in the tradition of Garcia Marquez.

Laughing Out Loud, I Fly: A Caracajadas Yo Vuelo

A collection of poems in Spanish and English about childhood, place, and identity

By Karen Barbour (illustrator) and Juan Felipe Herrera

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9780060276041 | Harperteen, May 1, 1998, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A collection of poems in Spanish and English about childhood, place, and identity

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9780060276058 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1998, cover price $13.01 | About this edition: A collection of poems in Spanish and English about childhood, place, and identity

Bus Stops & Other Poems

By Victor Ochoa (illustrator) and Manuel J. Velez

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9780966077308 | Calaca Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $8.00

Lime Orchard Woman: Poems