"Verde!" cries Pisco Sours. This poetry grows fresh and green on the vine. In these poems you will hear the rhythms of conquest and rebellion, boiling over in a furious song. Ananda Esteva is a skilled wordsmith, blending together the shout of spoken word and the haunting chant of traditional songs. She takes us to Chile and to the Americas of conquest and before. She guides us steadily on a journey through horror to the possibility of redemption. Join her on this march.

Pisco Sours

Literature & Fiction

Ananda Esteva

Poetry

Civil Defense Poetry

Singing an extremist ideology of human decency, James Tracy lays claim to the legacy of poets of protest, knows when to whisper, and builds a lyrical home for all of us. He takes us from New Orleans to New York to the Bay Area, on a whirlwind tour of the state of America. Tracy uses the word to celebrate the everyday heroes that the mainstream media has forgotten.

Sparks And Codes

James Tracy

History is written in the Body. But how does the Body know this, if the History that is learned is a denial or refusal of the truths that the Body remembers? The Legend of Sondayo is a remembered Filipino story that is told today in fragments. We will never know fully the richness and complexity, the meaning of layers, the beauty and sensuousness of the oral culture from where it emerged and once kept the village alive. The village of our indigenous memory was ravaged and pillaged by History s imperial narrative. But the Body doesn t forget. The past insists on being remembered. The Body that longs to be remembered calls upon this same History (of violence) in order to find its other face of healing, beauty, creativity. Leny Mendoza Strobel, from the introduction  Cover to cover this book is magic. The poetry lifts from the page and shapeshifts into a thousand moving pictures that dance and sing and move seamlessly through time, place, and gender. Maiana Minahal has taken a little-known Filipino folktale, spun it on its queer ear and made a most beautiful retelling. Sharon Bridgforth, author of love conjure/blues

Legend Sondayo (Civil Defense Pocketbook)

Maiana Minahal

<p>My stories / don t always sound so sweet, says Danielle Montgomery in one of the poems herein. She s right. Tales of fugitive relatives, destitute swindlers and dangerous families populate her work. Writing bad checks and using denuded credit cards, Montgomery shows us what happens when the second paycheck in paycheck-to-paycheck goes missing. She shows us the effects when basic needs are denied. And her poems insist on reminding us that this too, is America, not American literature and that the line drawn between us and them is a fiction, a lie we tell ourselves to keep ourselves safe. But none of us, as Montgomery s work shows us, can ever be truly safe as long as we are human. --Daphne Gottlieb, from the introduction In Danielle Montgomery s poetry, faith rides shotgun with hopelessness, and at the last minute grabs the wheel, dropping us off at our destination: salvation. --Thea Hillman</p>

The Woman You Write Poems About (Civil Defense Pocketbook)

Danielle Montgomery

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Pisco Sours

Sparks And Codes

Legend Sondayo (Civil Defense Pocketbook)

The Woman You Write Poems About (Civil Defense Pocketbook)