Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Newly available from SPD. Rod Ricardo-Livingstone was born and raised in Fresno, California. Part of the first generation in his family to be removed from the long hours and hard work of the agricultural fields, he expresses in his work his appreciation of and love for his family. He is a member of the Royal Chicano Navy based in Fresno under the admiralship of Gary Soto. Ricardo-Livingstone currently works as a high school teacher in Carlsbad, CA. CAMPESINO FINGERPRINTS is illustrated by Chicano Park muralist Victor Orozco Ochoa.

Campesino Fingerprints (Calaca Chapbook Series Volume 1)

Literature & Fiction

Ricardo-Livingstone, Rod

History & Criticism

Calaca Press

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. New from SPD. In AS OUR BARRIO TURNS ... WHO THE YOKE B ON?, alurista poet-filetero filosofo snaps shots of his singular history in wickedly funny, blasphemous travelogues through his youth and activist days. His scrapbook leapfrogs from military academy in M‚xico to militant politics in '60s San Diego, boyhood challenges of Catholic dogma, adult challenges in building a Chicano cultural movement. But it's not nostalgia that alurista traffics in -- it's the revisiting of the past that may hold clues to the map of the movimiento's millennium movidas. Pick up your Neo-Aztec battle armour and get ready to rumble in a vortex of language corridos and time-space slippage - Juan Felipe Herrera.

As Our Barrio Turns: Who the Yoke B On?

Alurista

Poetry

Poetry. Music. CD format. This classic CD from Calaca Press in San Diego, new to SPD, features ra£rsalinas, Antonieta Villamil, Grito Serpentino, alejandra ibarra, Leticia Hern ndez-Linares, robertkarimi, Los Delicados, Rod Ricardo-Livingstone, tatiana de la tierra, alurista and Tammy Gomez. Cover art by Mario Torero.

Raza Spoken Here 2

Press, Calaca

Dramas & Plays

Poetry. Music. Latino/Latina Studies. LOS MANY MUNDOS, the first spoken word CD by Xicanindio poet provocateur Raul Salinas, is now available due to a joint effort by Chicano publishers Calaca Press and Red Salmon Press -- and is newly available from SPD. Salinas is a sexagenarian activist, ex-prisoner, and native of Texas whose tough and stunningly vivid poetry chronicles the grassroots struggles of those whom Franz Fanon termed wretched of the earth. LOS MANY MUNDOS features the Taco Shop Poets rhythm section of Mikey Figgins (bass and trumpet) and Kevin Green (drums and piano) -- with a special appearance by Austin's Jazzmanian Devil, saxophonist Tom s Ram¡rez -- who weave a seamless aural tapestry for Salinas. The CD contains stunning cover art by Austin artist Joyce DiBona as well as liner notes by Abel Salas. Raul Salinas's critically acclaimed 1995 book of poetry and incendiary letters, EAST OF THE FREEWAY, is also available from SPD.

Los Many Mundos of Raulrsalinas: Un Poetic Jazz Viaje Con Friends

Salinas, Raúl

Poetry. "Self love. Power. Shamelessness. Sexual curiosity. All of these are elements of the erotic that Alejandra Ibarra invokes in these poems. They speak to a yearning, a jonesin', a hunger that feeds Chicana spirituality and sexuality...Their lyricism invokes the rhythm of the clave beat, as well as the repetition of a lover's whisper...They are poems that provoke bodily reactions. You will blush and flush a reading them" - from the foreword by Eliza Rodriguez Y Gibson.

Santa Perversa and Other Erotic Poems

Ibarra, Alejandra

Word Descarga with Jimmy Biala

Delicados, Los

Short Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. CD format. A double CD featuring short stories written and read by author-artist Sim¢n Silva from the book of the same name. SMALL TOWN BROWNY is a tribute to the farmworker families of California. Silva affirms their lives with characters that shout Ajua! in the face of the most difficult circumstances. Realistic, sad, sometimes funny, wonderfully descriptive -- Rudolfo Anaya.

Small Town Browny

Silva, Simón

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "She is chanteusse, diva, storyteller, rebelde, rabblerouser, and all poeta. The pages of Razor Edges are filled with the voices of the women next door, las comadres who work, live and struggle in the barrio. Leticia engages her reader throughout; she's questioning and challenging, and knows exactly when to weave in her song. To read Leticia's chapbook is to experience tongue twisting, bilingual, meaningful mouthfuls of reality. It's like sitting in a caf,, smelling the burnt and provocative aroma, and sipping the foam of a rich warm beverage"--Elba Rosario S nchez.

Razor Edges of My Tongue

Hernández-Linares, Leticia

Poetic Prose. Lesbian Erotica. Lesbian Identity. In Spanish and English on inverted pages. This philosophical exploration of the fantasy of being a lesbian is a poetic vision from the heart of the matriarchy. FOR THE HARD ONES/PARA LAS DURAS looks at different aspects of lesbianism, from the fingernails and the tongue to the literature and the herstory. A lesbian manifesto for hardcore dykes, baby dykes and wanna-be lesbians, FOR THE HARD ONES/PARA LAS DURAS is a lesbian celebration in Spanish and English, written by Colombian-American queer activist and librarian, tatiana de la tierra.

For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology / Para las duras: Una fenomenologia lesbiana

Tierra, Tatiana De La

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Ten poets who consider the implications of war: Olga A. Garcia, Lup Casttillo, Brandon Lacy Campos, Sara Duran, Raymond R. Beltran, Lorean E. Duarte Q., Mariajulia Arisiaga Urias, Teresa Ortiz, Victor Payan, Emmanuel Ortiz. "The title of our chapbook, then, is a challenge, a refusal to submit to wars (allegedly) fought in our names and for our benefits or security, with poor people of color as front-line cannon fodder, against other people of color in other parts of the world" - the editors, in Ofrendas, introducing the poets, who are from both Minnesota and California. Essential reading for anyone interested in the subtle and diverse variations in commentary on the agonies of war.

Under What Bandera?

Others

Beltran, Raymond R.

Duarte Q., Lorean E.

Garcia, Olga A.

Ortiz, Emmanuel

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