Emplumada

"No book before Lorna Dee Cervantes' "Emplumada" has so completely and sharply drawn the East Bay and San Jose, California experience with full justice. No book has so successfully made the Californian urban and rural worlds of unfinished freeways and 'spinached specked shoes' of cannery workers come alive. No book has so carefully elucidated what living as a Chicana in the West means, and how 'an intelligent, well-read person could believe in the war between races.' "Emplumada" offers a number of troubled and delicated portrait of a woman's world and how that antipatriarchal world has come to have meaning."
"--Revista Chicano-Riquena"

About the author

Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954. She is the author of From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger and Emplumada (1981), which won an American Book Award. She is also co-editor of Red Dirt, a cross-cultural poetry journal, and her work has been included in many anthologies including Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Women Poets, and After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties. In 1995 she received a Lila Wallace- Reader's Digest Writers' Award. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Summary

Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes's first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency.

Product details

• Authors: Lorna Dee Cervantes, Orna Dee Cervantes
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.1981
• EAN: 9780822953272
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5327-2
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 204 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 118 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry Series; Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Poetry, POETRY / American / General