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by Carmen Tafolla

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Featuring historic photos of the Chicano Movement in San Antonio and a new introduction, this is the 30th-anniversary edition of Carmen Tafolla’s first solo poetry collection. Having filled a cultural and linguistic void in 1983, when it was fir... Read more
Featuring historic photos of the Chicano Movement in San Antonio and a new introduction, this is the 30th-anniversary edition of Carmen Tafolla’s first solo poetry collection. Having filled a cultural and linguistic void in 1983, when it was first published, this compilation showcases the poet's creation of a literary language from the natural Spanish and English code-switching of the barrios of San Antonio. Banned in Arizona along with many other multicultural books, this work celebrates bilingual and bicultural diversity and the power of individual imagination while simultaneously examining social inequities. Many poems from this book have been widely anthologized throughout the past three decades. Less

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Publication date September 1, 2012
Languageeng
ISBN9781609402402
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Carmen Tafolla
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Carmen Tafolla is a much-anthologized poet, short story writer, screenwriter, critic, children’s author, performer, and lecturer who received the National Chicano Literature Prize in 1987. She lives...

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