"Becoming Cozt¿t¿tl is composed of eighteen poems that celebrate the forces that have made claims on us since the beginning of time: our bodies,our land, our families. Throughout these pages, Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros honors our children,our mothers, and our antepasados with a subtle lyricism that demands our attention.Read these poems. They are timely in their defiance of injustice, timely in their unfeigned compassion."

BecomingCoztōtōtl

Literature & Fiction

Hinojosa-Cisneros, Carolina

Literary

FlowerSong Books

A code-switching collection of diverse poetic forms, styles, and personas celebrating the dynamics of the human voice &amp; spirit. Daniel García Ordaz, the Poet Mariachi, the author of You Know What I'm Sayin'?, encourages readers to perform the text aloud, such as his adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo &amp; Juliet." A polyglottic exhibition of empowerment through performance. Influenced by and dedicated to the memories of Maya Angelou and Gloria E. Anzaldúa.

Cenzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment (Poetry * Drama)

García Ordaz, Daniel

United States

What this book is and is not. This is a collection of poetry dedicated to some of the principal energies of the Mexica and Orishas - two nature-based spiritual/cultural traditions, and ways of life. These indigenous energies are still quite alive and well in Africa, Mexico, in the diaspora, and the world. They are everywhere, depicted in all kinds of indigenous art, music, dance, in architecture, in weavings, in clothing, in the vast wares available in the markets, in museums etc. The energies themselves function as conduits, divine messengers, helpers, and wisdom keepers. In both of these spiritual traditions, there is but one supreme Creatrix-God, and these energies play an important role in daily life which is not separate from spirituality. The descriptions of the energies contained in this book are not all inclusive, nor are they meant to be exhaustive of the vast and rich historical and/or liturgical teachings and wisdom available to practitioners and people who live these ways. The information provided herein is basic, for those who have little or no knowledge of these tradition's existence or survival. They are also provided for those who may have knowledge about one of the traditions but not the other. The poems are the author's offerings in tribute to the Orisha and Mexica energies, inspired by their beauty and balance that permeates the world today. Enjoy!

The Color of Light: Poems for the Mexica and Orisha Energies

Galván Rodríguez, Odilia

Poetry

The first poetry book from one of the most distinctive voices in South Texas, Unwoven is an unflinchingly honest exploration of Chicana womanhood along the border, a scattering of quetzal feathers and jade that celebrate the achingly lovely paradox of life on the edges and in the middle. Playful, artful, and wholly memorable, these poems prove Erika Garza-Johnson deserving of her enduring moniker: La Poeta Power.

Unwoven

Garza-Johnson, Erika

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

VIDAURRE, EDWARD

Michael + Josephine is an unexpected love story between St. Michael the Archangel reimagined as a queer woman, and Josephine, a multiethnic Latina who works as a disaster relief worker. Both have busy, full lives helping the world around them. Too busy for a relationship, they contend. Still, they are drawn together at a moment when crises around the world are at an all-time high. In navigating a new kind of love, both solidify the importance of personal and community connection. "Michael + Josephine is the story of what every great love is—the clash of the everyday and the divine, the push and pull of what our lives demand and what our hearts long for, the hurt of everything we fight for and what we do not fight hard enough for. In these poems, jo reyes-boitel wields a pen that is feather light and scalpel sharp to dissect love, cauterize memory, and examine the unknowable."--ire’ne lara silva, author of Blood Sugar Canto and Cuicacalli/House of SongJo’s content and poetic craft played like a jazz quartet between my ears - tender, reckless and delicious.--Anel I. Flores, author of Empanada, a Lesbiana Story en ProbaditasSurrender to the considerable enchantments of Jo Reyes-Boitel’s magical book, Michael + Josephine: a novel in verse. Inhabit this tale of a complex relationship told in language that is lush, aggrieved, ecstatic, and simple. In poems that are at once visionary and everyday, Reyes-Boitel steadfastly refuses to separate divinity from reality. She revels in both instead.--Jim LaVilla-Havelin, author of West, poems of a place

Michael + Josephine: a novel in verse

Reyes-Boitel, Jo

Eddie Vega's Chicharra is, like its namesake, the ever-present South Texas cicada, a tiny but persistent witness, an almost unnoticed physical presence whose voice is long and lingering and leaves us haunted with the tragedies of everyday reality. Vega's casual tone is deceiving. It bears an innocence and a gentleness that only hint at what lies deeper. These poems go down easy, like a cool agua fresca, but their ingredients are complex and powerful, ground in a homemade molcajete, fruit of heirloom seeds cultivated for centuries. This is a poet whose sensitivity to human suffering is draped gracefully in a finely tuned sense of humor. Vega's poems demonstrate his ability to dance a humorous balancing act between two cultures and between the aching of our dreams and the chill of our realizations. Everyday life (and death) receive their tributes, in poems like There was no Carne Guisada, and a sci-fi voyage into the future, Ice Age, rings too true for comfort, and too ironic for us to not shiver at unending echoes of prejudice and immigrant exclusion. In true Vega style, he ends the collection with People of Olmos Park, every bit a joke, but true, where the punchline is dagger sharp. One cannot read Eddie Vega without sensing one's compassion deepened, one's heart more human. -Carmen Tafolla, State Poet Laureate of Texas

Chicharra Chorus

Vega, Eduardo

Coatlicue Girl is the long-anticipated bilingual collection from one of Xicana literature's most subversive voices. Griselda L. Muñoz navigates her own inner cosmology to bring forth stories and poems that speak of passion, survival, and perseverance of cultural identity.

Coatlicue Girl

Muñoz, Gris

Codex of Love: Bendita ternura is a migration of spirit. Liliana Valenzuela takes us by the hand andshows us where she comes from, where she's been, and where she is through a collection that at timesreads like a song and other times like a prayer. Valenzuela's voice whispers to us and gives us pleasure.She is kind in her sensuality and transcendent in the matters of the heart. The five sections in thecollection are as visual as they are thought provoking, through a metaphorical journey that's tender andurgent. A well thought and written poetic entree for the starving reader.

Codex of Love: Bendita ternura

Valenzuela, Liliana

Xánath Caraza's Corta la piel is a very powerful piece of writing. These 62 interconnected short prose poems move the reader with images encompassing everything from the personal struggles of the protagonists to current events to the conquest of the Americas.

Corta la piel: It Pierces the Skin

Caraza, Xánath

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