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Work Done Right
ISBN: 9780816522668 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My red pickup choked on burnt oil as I drove down Highway 99. . . . Abraham Tovar is a young man who works in a sausage factory and desperately longs to create a history of his own. As Abraham's life becomes absorbed into the blood and spice of pork, his thoughts explore his ancestry, roam the stars, and reflect upon the despairs and strengths of factory workers who live with "the unyielding memory of pig."
I pulled into Galdini Sausage at noon. The workers walked out of production and swatted away the flies desperate for pork. Pork gripped the men and was... My red pickup choked on burnt oil as I drove down Highway 99. . . . Abraham Tovar is a young man who works in a sausage factory and desp...
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71,06 |
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In the City of Smoking Mirrors
ISBN: 9780816523252 / Angielski / Miękka / 83 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Huitzilopochtli has returned. Aztec destroyer, god of sun and war. He of the hummingbird. Son of Coatlique, Our Lady of the Serpent Skin. But you can call him H. H. is reborn in the sprawling suburbs of an American metroplex in the late twentieth century, a place where "the future is a cartoon of the future." Life in suburbia is hard for an Aztec god: H. falls in and out of love, works downtown as an oficinista, raises children, and learns to command the awesome power of modern electronic media. Then one indifferent summer's day H. is seriously wounded by the police in a case...
Huitzilopochtli has returned. Aztec destroyer, god of sun and war. He of the hummingbird. Son of Coatlique, Our Lady of the Serpent Skin. But ...
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74,77 |
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The Keepsake Storm
ISBN: 9780816523290 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is Kathryn, "nearly 88, infinity next to infinity, / but infinity curled on itself, a whirlwind / that whipped about the house and was gone, / rain in its wake, a smell of dirt." Kathryn is near the end of her life and is losing her memories: travels, husbands, a storm of keepsakes. As Gina Franco unleashes that storm and as Kathryn's flood of memories washes over us, we know at once that we are in the hands of a truly gifted poet. "The Keepsake Storm" is the culmination of a verse cycle that probes the depths of the heart--a meditation on the meaning of life in a difficult...
Here is Kathryn, "nearly 88, infinity next to infinity, / but infinity curled on itself, a whirlwind / that whipped about the house and was go...
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74,77 |
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How Long She'll Last in This World
ISBN: 9780816525157 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Let go your keys, let go your gun, let go your good pen and your rings, let your wolf mask go and kiss goodbye your goddess figurine.
With this invocation, Maria Melendez beckons us on a journey an exotic expedition through life s mysteries in search of the finer strands of experience. In a Latina voice laced with a naturalist s sense of wonder, she weaves bold images reflecting a world threaded by unseen wounds, now laid before us with an unflinching love of life and an exquisite precision of language. Adopting multiple guises field researcher, laboring mother, grief-stricken... Let go your keys, let go your gun, let go your good pen and your rings, let your wolf mask go and kiss goodbye your goddess figurine.
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74,77 |
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A Love Story Beginning in Spanish
ISBN: 9780820327426 / Angielski / Miękka / 67 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judith Ortiz Cofer s third volume of poetry collects thirty-four poems written over the course of many years. In places as stark as a New Jersey barrio or fabled as the island home of Penelope and Odysseus, the people in these poems sometimes resist, sometimes reconcile, multiple cultures, tongues, and traditions as they navigate over ever-changing landscapes."
Judith Ortiz Cofer s third volume of poetry collects thirty-four poems written over the course of many years. In places as stark as a New Jersey barri...
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86,66 |
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Landscape with Human Figure
ISBN: 9780822328902 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Landscape with Human Figure, " his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America's most important poets. Like his predecessor William Carlos Williams, who was also a physician, Campo plumbs the depths of our capacity for empathy. Campo writes stunning, candid poems from outside the academy, poems that arise with equal beauty from a bleak Boston tenement or a moonlit Spanish plaza, poems that remain unafraid to explore and to celebrate his identity as a doctor and Cuban American gay man. Yet no matter what their unexpected and inspired...
In "Landscape with Human Figure, " his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America's most impo...
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112,18 |
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City of a Hundred Fires
ISBN: 9780822956839 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A journey in through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. It exposes and brings into question the cultural contradictions and yearnings of childhood and adolescent experiences through poetic narratives.
A journey in through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. It exposes and brings into question the cultural contrad...
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78,96 |
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Red Beans
ISBN: 9780918273918 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected as one of the best books of 1991 by Publishers Weekly. A blend of cultures and races, with inspirations ranging from Caribbean musical rhythms to Castillan and Moorish influences. -Quirky and utterly lovely.---VLS-This vigorous bilingual Latino troubador's poems and essays are 'a dance on the edges'.---Library Journal
Selected as one of the best books of 1991 by Publishers Weekly. A blend of cultures and races, with inspirations ranging from Caribbean musical...
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66,92 |
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My Father Was a Toltec: And Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781400034994 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment and passion. My Father Was a Toltec is the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and secured Castillo's place in the popular canon. It is included here in its entirety along with the best of her early poems.
Ana Castillo's poetry speaks--in English and Spanish--to every reader who has felt the pangs of exile, the... Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most powerful and en...
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78,96 |
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Dona Julia: And Other Poems by Alberto O. Cappas
ISBN: 9781403307378 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,00 |
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Poesía sencillamente profunda
ISBN: 9781414007908 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,54 |
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The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
ISBN: 9781556591730 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. National Book Award finalist Alberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poemsset in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizonaare lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, between cultures, between languages, between senses. Drawing upon fable, parable, and family legend, Rios utilizes the intense and supple imagination of childhood to find and preserve history beyond facts: plastic lemons turning into baseballs, a grandmother s long hair reaching up to save her life, the painted faith jumpers leaping to the earth and crowd below. This... National Book Award finalist Alberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poemsset in a town that straddles Mexico and Ari... |
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75,01 |
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Panoramas
ISBN: 9781566890663 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dancing in your hands, Panoramas illuminates Latin American/Caribbean culture in the U.S. and abroad.
Dancing in your hands, Panoramas illuminates Latin American/Caribbean culture in the U.S. and abroad.
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51,12 |
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Maraca: New & Selected Poems 1966-2000
ISBN: 9781566891226 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A colorful percussive collection spanning thirty-five years.
A colorful percussive collection spanning thirty-five years.
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86,86 |
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Dove Over Clouds
ISBN: 9781891386671 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nieves has blessed us with a cacophony of magical verses; conjure and spells that give us clarity about the experiences of women, mothers, and immigrants. They give us new ways of understanding loss, love, and redemption. By reading and re-reading these poems, we not only bear witness to Nieves' growth as a woman, warrior and writer, but we, in turn, grow ourselves. Asi
Randee Lipson Lawrence, Ed. D., National-Louis University Yolanda Nieves has woven an elaborate tapestry of dreams, memories, desire, and most importantly, love. Her voice is that of a priestess - the conjure woman... Nieves has blessed us with a cacophony of magical verses; conjure and spells that give us clarity about the experiences of women, mothers, and immigra...
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59,02 |
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To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry
ISBN: 9781929918188 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book of essays on poetry by Snodgrass since "In Radical Pursuit "(1975).
The first book of essays on poetry by Snodgrass since "In Radical Pursuit "(1975).
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94,75 |
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The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande
ISBN: 9781929918201 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known for his superrealism and magical images born of the imagery of the Chicano/South Western culture, Ray Gonzalez gives new imagery and intensity to the mystery and common miracles of that culture, the passionate reclamation of identity. Ray Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and editor born in El Paso, Texas. He is the author of five books of poetry, including The Heat of Arrivals (BOA 1996), which won the 1997 Josephine Miles Book Award for Excellence in Literature, and Cabato Sentora (BOA 1999). He is the editor of twelve anthologies and serves as Poetry Editor... Known for his superrealism and magical images born of the imagery of the Chicano/South Western culture, Ray Gonzalez gives new imagery and intensit... |
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67,12 |
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Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781929918706 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection balances ample selections from award-winning poet Ray Gonzalez's six previous books with 30 new poems. Gonzalez's early poems are dominated by Southwest desert landscapes and deal with the pressure of conflicts between border cultures. More recent poems upend prevailing stories about historical figures, artists, and writers, create new animal myths, and push traditional boundaries of the free verse lyric deeper into surrealism. Ray Gonzalez has published 14 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and has edited 12 anthologies. He is the poetry editor of The... This collection balances ample selections from award-winning poet Ray Gonzalez's six previous books with 30 new poems. Gonzalez's early poems are d... |
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92,87 |
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Poemas
ISBN: 9788498164671 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,59 |
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La Cautiva
ISBN: 9789871136117 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Echeverria's classic poem La cautiva in a new, annotated edition Though critisized by the Martin Fierro supporting authors such as Leopoldo Lugones as a romantisized vision of the Pampa, Echeverria's poem is still considered a cornerstone of the Latin American poetry, depicting the human drama of the Southern cone frontier life.
Echeverria's classic poem La cautiva in a new, annotated edition Though critisized by the Martin Fierro supporting authors such as Leopoldo Lugones as...
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71,06 |
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