"I Have Always Been Here" resists the lie that Chican@ language, culture, and people are somehow foreign to the American experience, for Chican@ ancestry is as much Native American -indigenous to the U.S. Southwest - as it is now European and African. A Chican@ Beat poet from the Rio Grande Valley of deep South Texas, Carmona explores his own discovery of this truth in this, his second poetry collection, written in a natural, engaging style.

I Have Always Been Here

Literature & Fiction

Carmona, Christopher

Poetry

Otras Voces Publishing

This book is a collection of 140 poems written over 140 days by Christopher Carmona and translated by Gerald Padilla. This collection is a series a poems that cover the space of December 1, 2015 to April 12, 2016. Each poem represents a reflection of the day it was written and speaks of the social and political fervor of the day.  Christopher Carmona was the inaugural writer-in-residence for the Langdon Review Writers Residency Program in 2015. The Texas Observer recognized him as being one of the top five writers in 2014. He has two books of poetry, beat and I Have Always Been Here, and one book of short fiction, The Road to Llorona Park. He is the winner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Best Fiction Book of 2016.

140 Twitter Poems (Bilanguaging Edition)

Jade Publishing

NAMED BY NBC NEWS AS ONE OF EIGHT GREAT LATINO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2016 The Road to Llorona Park is a collection of short fiction about the changing world of la frontera/the borderlands of the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. The stories center around the current times when the political upheavals of Mexico began to effect peoples lives on both sides of the border.

The Road to Llorona Park

Literary

Stephen F. Austin University Press

A novel, set in South Texas, that challenges the Lone Ranger story with a Chicano Superhero in the early 20th century. Mexican Tejano families have been living in South Texas for hundreds of years. The completed railroad has brought another wave of Anglo settlers seeking new lands by any means necessary. Chonnie's family has been murdered and Mexican Tejanos are being terrorized in the name of progress by a ruthless organization known as the Texas Rangers. What will Chonnie do? Who will he become? Those who have terrorized the Mexican American community will soon meet their match.

El Rinche: The Ghost Ranger of the Rio Grande

United States

El Rinche Vol. 2: Revolución: In the second volume of the adventures of El Rinche and the gang of heroes, the stakes have never been higher. It is 1911 and the Mexican Revolution rages south of the border. The gang faces off against a villain like they have never encountered. Old allies come back with tragic news. The tragedies of African Americans and Mexicano Tejanos clash with the introduction of a new villain that works to destroy communities of color across the country. This volume introduces new allies such as Aniceto Pizaña, Jovita Idar, Virginia Yeager, and Grant Johnson [the real Tonto].

El Rinche: Revolución Vol. 2

Genre Fiction