This long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect poetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir from Native American women. Over eighty writers are represented from nearly fifty nations, including such nationally known writers as Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lee Maracle, Janet Campbell Hale, and Luci Tapahonso; others -- Wilma Mankiller, Winona LaDuke, and Bea Medicine -- who are known primarily for their...
This long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an histo...
It's not just the good girls who get their Christmas wishes; the naughty ones get something "X"tra special in their stocking this year. These three steamy novellas, as red hot as Christmas candy and just as spicy, are guaranteed to keep fires burning all winter long. Hot For Christmas P.J. Mellor Boutique owner Allison Conroe just found her perfect Christmas gift, all gorgeously wrapped in well-worn denim. Rugged Texas loner Chris MacNeal is a sexy Scrooge determined to rattle Allison's chains--but the merry vixen has more satisfying games in mind. . . Triple...
It's not just the good girls who get their Christmas wishes; the naughty ones get something "X"tra special in their stocking this year. These three st...
In her second collection of poems, Valerie Martinez builds on the artistic command of language that characterized her award-winning first volume, Absence, Luminescent. Taking on not only such familiar themes as love and loss, family and culture, but also the creative act of poetry itself, World to World crosses new boundaries to chart a mature poet s awareness of her own voice and style. Martinez explores the dynamic of creation/dissolution in original and intriguing ways. Here are the strange and provocative landscapes of the body and its disappearance . . . of...
In her second collection of poems, Valerie Martinez builds on the artistic command of language that characterized her award-winning first volu...
For over a year and a half, Santa Fe, New Mexico's Poet Laureate, 2008-2010, Valerie Martinez worked closely with three generations of eleven Santa Fe families in the creation of unique works of art and poetry. The project and exhibition, entitled "Lines and Circles: A Celebration of Santa Fe Families," encouraged positive relationships within and between families, promoted meaningful community dialogue, and generated a body of art and poetry that commemorates family life in Santa Fe. This book documents the project and the families, celebrating art at the heart of community life. Ms....
For over a year and a half, Santa Fe, New Mexico's Poet Laureate, 2008-2010, Valerie Martinez worked closely with three generations of eleven Santa Fe...
In 2004 twenty-eight women and young girls were murdered in Ciudad Juarez and the surrounding areas. The tragedy escalated to fifty-eight murders in 2006, then again to eighty-six in 2008, and current estimates top four hundred deaths. Now poet Valerie Martinez offers a poetic exploration of these events, pushing boundaries stylistically and artistically with vivid poems that contextualize femicide. Martinez departs from traditional narrative to reveal the hidden effects and outcomes of the horrific and heart-wrenching cases of femicide. These poems lyric fragments and prose passages...
In 2004 twenty-eight women and young girls were murdered in Ciudad Juarez and the surrounding areas. The tragedy escalated to fifty-eight murders in 2...
