Sometimes the grind of life in modern America sucks Latin@s dry: between the daily micro-aggressions and institutional racism, la gente find themselves drained of that essential chispa. At times like those, we need a Chicano blood transfusion like the one Edward Vidaurre injects straight into our souls in his most recent collection. So just lean back and let yourself be guided through the graffitied recesses of our collective barrio by one of the most important poets of deep South Texas, whose unique voice blends street, Beat, form and striking breadth.

Chicano Blood Transfusion

Literature & Fiction

VIDAURRE, EDWARD

Poetry

FlowerSong Books

Art That Heals, Inc., presents Boundless 2016, the official anthology of the 9th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (www.valleypoetryfest.org). Boundless is an eclectic collection of poetry from around Texas and U.S. and including contributions by poets from the U.K., Albania, and Mexico.For the first time ever, a Youth Anthology is also included!The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (V.I.P.F.) is held annually in deep south Texas. #VIPF2016

Boundless 2016: The Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival

Hoerth, Katherine

Elliot, Sharon

Galván Rodríguez, Odilia

Peña, Laura

Ellis, Kelly Ann

El Zarape Press

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Latinx Studies. PANDEMIA & OTHER POEMS comes to the world as a salve to a trifecta of crises--border issues of children in cages and immigrants being held in tent cities to wait with little or no hope; a virus that has crippled the world forcing us to reevaluate and test our resolve as survivors; and the ongoing issue of police brutality stirring protests around the world. Vidaurre is a poet who wants to help people, and who works through "the ghostly streets of uncertainty" in the midst of this pandemia with dreams, hope--and love, always, there is love. "There is a different quality to these poems," writes Odilia Galv&Atilde;&iexcl;n Rodr&Atilde;&shy;guez, "a maturity that comes with mas golpes de la vida."

Pandemia & Other Poems

History & Criticism

Aztlan Libre Press

El Zarape Press presents Boundless 2019, the official anthology of the 12th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival. Boundless is an eclectic collection of poetry from around Texas and the U.S.A., with contributions by poets from Scotland, England, India, and Mexico. Youth Anthology is also included!The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (V.I.P.F.) is held annually in deep south Texas.www.valleypoetryfest.orgPoetry * Music * Art#VIPF2018

Boundless 2019: Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival Anthology

García Ordaz, Daniel

Independently published

Take a trip with the from El Salvador to East L.A. and finally to Texas in this premiere collection of poems by a man who escaped the fate of many in the barrios of La Lucha and turned those experiences into poetry. This book is as much a story of struggle and survival wrapped in poetic verse as it is a love story for life.

I Took My Barrio On A Road Trip

Literary

Beautiful Scars: Elegiac Beat Poems is an emotional pulling back of the curtain, an explosion of longing, loss, love and-always-hope. In his third collection of poetry, Edward Vidaurre, a razor-sharp voice in Hispanic American poetry, tears through layers of mourning and separation with the indomitable spirit of a man in pieces yet ultimately and unrepentantly in love and determined to stay intact. Armed with the definitive knowledge that Faith, Hope, and Love never hover too far distant, Vidaurre takes on death, grief, and loss intuitively aware that there's light at the end of the tunnel--with love unapologetically leading the way. Vidaurre's journey in Beautiful Scars includes photographs and quick sketches of the torn pieces of family and relationships but also of newly-formed creations from his reshaped world.

Beautiful Scars: Elegiac Beat Poems (2nd Edition)

Self-Help

Relationships

JazzHouse ~ compelling love songs to the intensity of everyday life; from the magic in the routine to the marvels and miraculousness of living. Edward Vidaurre takes us with him on his life trip, from East LA to the Rio Grande Valley and the all the far reaching roots that accompany him in the form of ancestors, spirits, family, and other familiars. JAZzHOUSE is a base camp, and a life. We are invited in to share some food, some cafecito, or a glass of wine - to sit awhile and be grateful for every minute we are alive.

JazzHouse

Prickly Pear Publishing

Let A New Earth Rise: Rio Grande Valley Youth Anthology: A McAllen Poet Laureate Anthology Volume II 2019

Education & Teaching

Gomez, Rodney

Suárez, Priscilla Celina

Books, FlowerSong

Schools & Teaching

Cry, Howl, the latest poetry collection by Edward Vidaurre, is sharply focused and insightful into today's reality. It penetrates the disturbing state of things in this "new normal" way of life that seems to besiege us all. But the poet arms himself and us with powerful images that shore up that drowning city that can inhabit us. The hope in his poems center around family, and the emotional relativity of loved ones becomes the saving grace that can rescue us from our precipice. There is weaving and interweaving of infinite axioms in this poetry of Vidaurre, which is portentous, poetry that remains engraved in the deepest part of our being.

Cry, Howl

Prickly Pear Publishing & Nopalli Press

By Throat, By Miracle: New & Selected Poems

Luchadora Press

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