Cenzontle

Cenzontle PDF Author: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1942683545
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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In this highly lyrical, imagistic debut, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo creates a nuanced narrative of life before, during, and after crossing the US/Mexico border. These poems explore the emotional fallout of immigration, the illusion of the American dream via the fallacy of the nuclear family, the latent anxieties of living in a queer brown undocumented body within a heteronormative marriage, and the ongoing search for belonging. Finding solace in the resignation to sheer possibility, these poems challenge us to question the potential ways in which two people can interact, love, give birth, and mourn—sometimes all at once.

Cenzontle

Cenzontle PDF Author: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1942683545
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Book Description
In this highly lyrical, imagistic debut, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo creates a nuanced narrative of life before, during, and after crossing the US/Mexico border. These poems explore the emotional fallout of immigration, the illusion of the American dream via the fallacy of the nuclear family, the latent anxieties of living in a queer brown undocumented body within a heteronormative marriage, and the ongoing search for belonging. Finding solace in the resignation to sheer possibility, these poems challenge us to question the potential ways in which two people can interact, love, give birth, and mourn—sometimes all at once.

Cenzontle

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Cenzontle, Chicano Writings of the 80's

Cenzontle, Chicano Writings of the 80's PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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This work contains poems and stories from the eighth Chicano Literary Contest held at the University of California, Irvine.

Semantics of the World

Semantics of the World PDF Author: Rómulo Bustos Aguirre
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 082636425X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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A poet of both the body and spirit, the work of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre often explores the nature of existence at the turn of the twenty-first century—humankind’s relationship to itself and the universe, the meaning or purpose, if any, of human existence, and the daunting task of discerning that meaning. Critics have described his poetry as highly refined lyricism, metaphysical, existential, and at times erotic. Semantics of the World introduces the English-speaking world to the exciting work of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre, one of Colombia’s most celebrated living writers. This selection of extraordinary poems, edited and translated by Nohora Arrieta Fernández and Mark A. Sanders, presents Bustos Aguirre’s works in Spanish alongside their English translations and features the critical apparatus necessary for making Bustos Aguirre’s poetry more accessible to students, scholars, and the general reading public. The volume offers the perfect introduction to Rómulo Bustos Aguirre and his poetry for critical and popular audiences throughout the Anglosphere.

Children of the Land

Children of the Land PDF Author: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062825607
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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An NPR Best Book of the Year A 2020 International Latino Book Award Finalist An Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. “You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” When Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. Children of the Land distills the trauma of displacement, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen.

Cenzontle/Mockingbird

Cenzontle/Mockingbird PDF Author: Daniel García Ordaz
Publisher: Flowersong Books
ISBN: 9780692077528
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry and drama that encourages readers to perform the text aloud as a form of empowerment, to celebrate the dynamics of the human voice. Teacher and performance poet Daniel García Ordaz, the Poet Mariachi, author of You Know What I'm Sayin'?, now presents his second collection, a polythetic assortment of poetry and drama--an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet"--that serves as a polyglottic exhibition of empowerment through performance/mimicry. (Separate YA edition is planned.)

Resource Publication

Resource Publication PDF Author:
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Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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Constructing the Criollo Archive

Constructing the Criollo Archive PDF Author: Antony Higgins
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557531988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Focusing on a period neglected by scholars, Higgins reconstructs how during the colonial period criollos - individuals identified as being of Spanish descent born in America - elaborated a body of knowledge, an "archive," in order to establish their intellectual autonomy within the Spanish colonial administrative structures." "This book opens up an important area of research that will be of interest to scholars and students of Spanish American colonial literature and history."--BOOK JACKET.

Native Names of Mexican Birds

Native Names of Mexican Birds PDF Author:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Silence of the Fireflies

Silence of the Fireflies PDF Author: Mukherjee, P.
Publisher: Exceller Books
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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‘Silence of the Fireflies’ is an an endearing and illustrative poetry book. In a world where we still fantasise about the dominance of an ideological position, it does not matter who we are tilting towards, we treat them as a caveat and start worshipping at the altar. One does not have to agree with any kind of politics as long as the questions are not brushed aside, ignored, never taken cognizance of. Therefore this anthology is dedicated to lives that have been spent asking questions. If the march of ideological dominance can be ideated through one single metaphor then it is the stinging spectre of the “market” and the subversion of the democratic forces by the market forces.