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My Father Was a Toltec - and Selected Poems

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Zusatztext “If you have read Ana Castillo’s work before! you will not be disappointed. If you have not read Castillo before—where have you been?” — Houston Chronicle “Ana Castillo is immensely insightful in every sense of the word. Her work…must be read if one is to gain understanding of the landscape of the soul.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Informationen zum Autor Ana Castillo is the author of the novels Peel My Love Like an Onion , So Far from God , The Mixquiahuala Letters , and Sapogonia . She has written a story collection, Loverboys ; the critical study Massacre of the Dreamers ; the poetry collection I Ask the Impossible ; and the children’s book My Daughter, My Son, the Eagle, the Dove . She is the editor of the anthology Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe , available from Vintage Español ( La diosa de las Américas ). Castillo has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Book Award, a Carl Sandburg Award, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Chicago. Find out more about Castillo at her homepage: www.anacastillo.com. Klappentext 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 uninterrupted joy of love, and the deep despair of love lost. Zusammenfassung 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 uninterrupted joy of love! and the deep despair of love lost. ...

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Authors Ana Castillo
Publisher Anchor Books USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 13.04.2004
 
EAN 9781400034994
ISBN 978-1-4000-3499-4
No. of pages 192
Dimensions 133 mm x 203 mm x 11 mm
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama

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