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Priest Under Fire
David Rodriguez, or Padre David as he is known throughout El Salvador, is a diocesan priest who followed the Second Vatican Council's doctrinal mandate to advocate for the poor and oppressed. Along with other progressive clergy committed to liberation theology, Padre David helped drive forward the country’s popular movement. In the 1970s, Padre David joined the largest guerilla organization in El Salvador, the FPL (Popular Liberation Forces). At first, he supported the FPL clandestinely, helping to organize Christian Base Communities, autonomous religious groups dedicated to spreading liberationist ideas and to giving the Salvadoran poor a clear understanding of why their lives were so dif...
Zoratama (the Indian Princess)
The reader anxious not only to acquaint himself with a fabulous history and legend, but also to comprehend deeply the great importance of a previous empire and a major civilization, whose roots and vestiges continue to exist. The student, the researcher and those who are especially drawn to this subject matter will be provided with interesting incentives to reflect on and will find, in this work of historical, pedagogic and literary importance a veritable treasure house of art, of love and legend. It is for these reasons that I consider it essential to compose this preface, which will serve as a stimulus for the reading and for a greater acquaintance with this major civilization, which is ce...
Elegy
A few days before his death in 1996, Larry Levis mentioned to his friend and former instructor Philip Levine that he had "an all-but-completed manuscript" of poems. Levine had years earlier recognized Levis as "the most gifted and determined young poet I have ever had the good fortune to have in one of my classes"; after Levis's death, Levine edited the poems Levis had left behind. What emerged is this haunting collection, Elegy.The poems were written in the six years following publication of his previous book, The Widening Spell of the Leaves, and continue and extend the jazz improvisations on themes that gave those poems their resonance. There are poems of sudden stops and threats from the...
La Vaca Loca, El Torito Pinto, and the Correfoc
This publication presents material that the author, Jaime Cader, began to collect in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Included is cultural information from Spain and Latin America gathered from previously printed sources, musical recordings, and artwork, as well as interviews both historic and recent. This book contains musical notations, dance step instructions, and the words to songs as well.
Chicano Scholars and Writers
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