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A Rope of Luna
Bold, fresh, painful, and charged with spiritual energy, Garcia's A Rope of Luna pulls us through the cycles of life with insight, passion, and "the stubbornness of a heel ground into the dirt." Poignant and sweet in its intimacy, this collection of poems immerses us in the raw wound of life as an immigrant child, as a daughter of a dying mother, as an estranged child of a faraway father, of a determined poet capturing the beauty of life in its "new botanical garden where I choose the order of petal and plant." Vividly painting the experience of leaving her native land and of being immersed in a place where her ethnicity, her language, and the prejudice of local institutions mark her as the ...
Blood Rivers
Lisha Adela Garcia's splendid debut full-length collection of poems, Blood Rivers, follows the legacy of blood-spilled, spared, reviled, holy, singled-out, intermingled, and sustaining. These are poems of cultural border crossings and personal boundary breaches as seen from the female perspective. Her "whole life is the geography between...two countries, two cultures, two languages," the Rio Grande, "hugging both sides" of her story. She envisions her "long black tongue, a computer / chewing the lessons of history." The poems can be scathing, calling us out for our absurdities, as in "St, Francis in Mesilla" where we hear how "War tames the sassy wildness of the rich / who justify themselves...
Dreams and Blessings
Six Visionary Poets: Lisha Adela Garcia Jennifer Read Hawthorne Anna Kodama Nancy Lee Melmon Angie Minkin Suzanne Dudley Edited by Diane Frank Foreword by Jennifer Read Hawthorne #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor, Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul We dream together. Write together. Celebrate together. The six of us -- Lisha Adela Garcia, Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Anna Kodama, Angie Minkin, Nancy Lee Melmon, and Suzanne Dudley -- are all students of Diane Frank, San Francisco poet, teacher, and founder of Blue Light Press. Our poems take us deeper, show us what we value, help us explore the themes of our lives. We write to understand ourselves better -- and to explain the world we live in. We write to understand how all beings connect, in this world and beyond. We write to celebrate what is good in the world and why we would like our planet to survive. -- Excerpted from the Foreword
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Chicana Portraits
This innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Artist Raquel Valle-Sentíes’s portraits bring visual dimension, while essays delve deeply into the authors’ lives for details that inform their literary, artistic, feminist, and political trajectories and sensibilities. The collection brilliantly intersects artistic visual and literary cultural productions, allowing complex themes to emerge, such as the fragility of life, sexism and misogyny, Chicana agency and forging one’s own path, the struggles of becoming a writer and battling self-doubt, e...
