Lorna D Cervantes

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April On Olympia

Beschreibung

"A new collection of poems by one of the major voices in Chicana literature. Poet Lorna Dee Cervantes's poetry evokes and explores cultural difference-between Mexican, Anglo, Native American, and African American lives-as well as the divides of gender and economics"--

Autor

Lorna Dee Cervantes is a XicanIndx (Chumash/Purepacha) author of five award-winning books of poetry: Emplumada (Pitt Poetry Series 1981); From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (Arte Publico Press 1991); Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems (Wings Press 2011); Drive: The First Quartet (Wings Press 2005); and Sueñ o (Wings Press 2013). The founder of MANGO Publications (first to publish Sandra Cisneros), Cervantes is also the recipient of two NEA grants, two Pushcart Prizes, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest grant, and three state arts poetry fellowships. She presented twice at the Library of Congress as well as hundreds of universities, colleges and other venues. The former Director of Creative Writing at CU Boulder, where she was a professor for 20 years, she up and moved to Olympia, WA in 2014, and now lives and writes in Seattle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780996991261
• ISBN-10: 0996991263
• Artikelnr.: 63153721