American - Hispanic & Latino
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Healing Earthquakes: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartCombining a stunning lyrical intensity with a profound exploration of the human soul, Healing Earthquakes uses poetry to conjure a romance, from beginning to end. Jimmy Santiago Baca introduces us to … [more below]
- Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138144
- Language: English
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Mopes: A Book in Three Acts
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Straddling the wreckage of late capitalist America, the poems in Kenneth Reveiz’s MOPES arc urgently toward utopia–or at least they do their best.
The intimate eros of liberated queerness is interrup… [more below]- Series: Fence Modern Poets
- Author: Reveiz, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1944380248
- Language: English
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Mexican Dinosaur
$20.00 Add to cartMexican Dinosaur is a poetic offering from C.L. “Rooster” Martinez and Write About Now Publishing. The collection of poems is a metamodernist take on the changing economic demographics of his San Anto
- Author: Martinez, C. L. Rooster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0990612740
- Language: English
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The Law of Conservation
$16.95 Add to cartThe Law of Conservation is a poetry collection intensely attuned to landscape, both geographic and metaphorical.
Borders blurred as cities cede to rural land; the body as a changing place on an equally
- Author: Spada, Mariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052226
- Language: English
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City on the Second Floor
$15.00 Add to cartHailed by historians and journalists alike as the “best political poet in America” and “poet laureate of struggle”, Sedillo returns with another instant classic. City on the Second Floor is a meditati
- Author: Sedillo, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1953447899
- Language: English
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The Blood Poems
$18.95 Add to cartThe Blood Poems is one part bloodletting, one part healing, and one part sensuous celebration as Jessica Helen Lopez lays out what it means to be a strong brown woman, a single mother, and the kickass
- Series: The Albuquerque Poet Laureate
- Author: Lopez, Jessica Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826363253
- Language: English
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American Quasar
$16.95 Add to cart*HONORABLE MENTION for the 2022 International Latino Book Awards, Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award – One Author – English*
American Quasar is a visual-textual collaboration between poet David
- Author: Campos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 159709448X
- Language: English
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The Book of Wounded Sparrows: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartIn The Book of Wounded Sparrows, his second full-length collection of poetry, Octavio Quintanilla sifts through the wreckage left in the pursuit of the American Dream. This is a book within a book, a
- Series: Con[text]ual
- Author: Quintanilla, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1680033662
- Language: English
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How to Pull Apart the Earth
$15.00 Add to cartFirst award-winning full-length collection from Karla Cordero unpacking the cultural confluence of border towns, an increasingly relevant subject to our nation’s policy toward border control.
- Author: Cordero, Karla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1945649259
- Language: English
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Abstract Heart
$14.99 Read moreab-stract (adjective)
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existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
heart (noun)
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the central or innermost part of something.
Abstract Heart is a labor of
- Author: Iron Word, J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1945322039
- Language: English
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God of the Air Hose and Other Blue-Collar Poems
$12.98 Add to cart“Ceasar K. Avelar swings a Central American hammer in poems that sing the working life while also decrying the gaps and empties. He’s a powerful voice from the Central American migrant stream essentia… [more below]
- Author: Avelar, Ceasar K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1088109896
- Language: English
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Of Jibaros and Hillbillies
$14.95 Add to cart“…this new world fraught with enormous new challenges weighted down with inherited old world problems, needs new navigational tools, new tongues unafraid of truth, and new poets with hearts and word… [more below]
- Author: Nazario y. Colon, Ricardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: January 19 2011
- ISBN10: 193551413X
- Language: English
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Nostalgias of November / Nostalgias de Noviembre: Poems / Poemas
$15.00 Add to cartSet in the borderlands, Nostalgias of November, Arturo Maga Amaya’s first collection of bilingual poems, is a bridge from the struggle of our labor to the serenity of our memory, from the voices of
- Author: Amaya, Arturo Magaña
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1958870048
- Language: English
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Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartThe coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner.
In C. T. Salazar’s striking debut poetry collection, the speaker is situated in the tradition of Southern literature but reimagines its terra- Author: Salazar, C. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: February 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1946724483
- Language: English
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Our Lady of Perpetual Desert
$15.00 Add to cartIn Our Lady of Perpetual Desert, Hillary Gravendyk Prize-winning poet Alexandra Martinez mulls over the poet’s existence in the United States. It is less a book about cultural identity than about cla
- Author: Martinez, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: April 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1955969159
- Language: English
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My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartIn this beautiful collection of poems, remarkable for their plainspoken radiance, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in Intern… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1101872500
- Language: English
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My Favorite Tyrants
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2014 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye
The word “tyrant” carries negative connotations, but in this new collection, Joanne Diaz tries to understand what makes tyr… [more below]- Series: Brittingham Prize in Poetry
- Author: Diaz, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0299297845
- Language: English
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Lineage of Rain
$10.00 Add to cartIn this spellbinding debut, Los Angeles-born poet Janel Pineda sings of communal love and the diaspora and dreams for a liberated future. Lineage of Rain traces histories of Salvadoran migration and t
- Series: Breakbeat Poets
- Author: Pineda, Janel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: December 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1642595276
- Language: English
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leaving a tip at the Blue Moon Motel
$16.00 Add to cartThis newest collection from Richard Vargas stands chest-to-chest with the realities of the American working class. At once acerbic and tender, the poems swell with curiosity and compassion for the peo
- Author: Vargas, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1956375171
- Language: English
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The daughterland
$12.98 Add to cart“the daughterland is a Plathian interrogation of Mexican motherhood during the regressive Covid-era by a mother who was a daughter during the arms race, Ronald Reagan, and socially-accepted toxic masc… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Margaret Elysia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1088030521
- Language: English
