Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "This is a book that sows words like seeds in the breach of sense and language, body and place, monument and ruin, self and nation. 'There is material here that will start the rebuilding,' Gabe Gómez assures us, and that material is found in the 'the foreign / body,' the 'broken English of immigrants,' a 'patois,' and in 'our mother tongue,' where 'a kind of melody / stifled by letters' tries to 'sound out the new world.' These seeds 'find patterns / in the mayhem // from patterns in their flight.' THE SEED BANK offers hope, then, in the very materials discarded, splintered, unvalued, forgotten in the wake of natural disaster or assimilation or Monsanto: what each of us holds in our hands, our ancient seeds, our memories and nouns, our desires and verbs, our individual and hybrid voices, which can take root anywhere and disrupt the order with a field of wildflowers. We need this book to remind us, again and again, of our strength, our flexible syntax, our 'hard breath blooming' against a grammar of destruction."--Rosa Alcalá

The Seed Bank

Literature & Fiction

Gómez, Gabriel

Poetry

Mouthfeel Press

Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick's chapbook collection is about the self, and the mind that insists upon it's own space. How to reconcile the body and mind? In this collection, Shannon turns to the desert and those around her who dwell in the vastness in order to bring a complete self into the page. Her poetry is lyrical, experimental, inquisitive, filled with music and wonder.

Hummingbird Mind

Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick

Poetry. Spanish Language Edition. "En LLAMAR AL AGUA POR SU NOMBRE, encontramos textos de un vaivén inusual, que penetran a partir de la fragmentación para llegar a otra manera de ver. Son parte de lo que nombran, resuelven aquello que describen, se derraman, se rehacen y se nutren de sí mismos. La creatividad es liberada sensualmente con formas marinas. Como contraparte, en la segunda parte del libro, 'Del otro lado de la lluvia,' aparecen poemas breves, sólidos, de una contundencia conceptual y simbólica que asombran. Pequeños trazos de significaciones que, en apariencia descolocadas o caprichosas, colocan su dardo. Poemas terrestres de aliento suspensivo."—Laura Solórzano

Llamar al agua por su nombre

Cesarco Eglin, Laura

Part memoir, part fiction, Swagger is a Woman transports the reader to the streets of L.A., the innocence of youth and hardship of loss. This contemporary collection is filled with youthful exuberance, optimistic wit, humor and discovery of self.

Swagger is a Woman

Cassandra Love

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Steven Holland-Wempe, Sandra Kingery, and the author. "This debut collection is amazing. The finesse of the storytelling is a pleasure on every page. The importance of immigrant issues becomes not a political statement so much as an epic story of all peoples' survival. Although the stories are not linked and take place in various geographies—China, Europe, the United States, and Mexico—still, the continuity remains with the heroine figure. She is a woman who travels through miseries, between the worlds of the living and the spirits. La Llorona's shadow casts a spell on these stories, where loss occurs, but the natural world offers solace, as well as unexpected beauties. This is a book of songs as well as myths."—Denise Low-Weso

Lo que trae la marea/What the Tide Brings

Caraza, Xánath

Contemporary

This is the story of one boy's passage from childhood to adolescence. In a remote sierra mountain village called San Meliton, 10 year-old Juan is already a talented potter and sculptor. When he is given the opportunity to deliver an invitation from his community to the neighboring village of San Marcos; he is anxious to take on the challenge. However, he discovers the journey to be more difficult that he anticipated, as he and his traveling companion and pet, Pancha the goat, are faced with a steep, strenuous climb, harsh weather conditions and a confrontation with a crazy mountain hermit that wants to cook Pancha, his goat on a soup. Spanish: Abra Cadabra,Patas de Cabra es la historia de un niño que está creciendo y pasando de la niñez a la adolescencia. La historia tiene lugar en un aislado pueblito de la sierra llamado San Melitón y Juan, muchachito de diez años es ya un talentoso ceramista y escultor. A Juan se le presenta la oportunidad de llevar la invitación a su gran fiesta anual a San Marcos, el pueblo vecino. El niño se emociona por esta oportunidad, pero descubre que la jornada es más dificil de lo que pensaba, cuando él con su cabra Pancha tienen que subir por laderas peligrosas; además se topan en el camino con un malvado ermitaño que los atrapa y quiere hacer un caldo con su querida cabrita llamada Pancha.

Los Lagartos de San Jacinto

Alejandrina Drew

Children's Books

Pulp is a smart, sharp poetry collection as strong and bodacious as the title suggests. Villagarcia writes between many borders, carrying a grafted-Latina-resonance, proud and strong, and a wise learning having lived what seems more than a few different lifetimes. Villagarcia's voice carries the reader back to her antepasados, the wise women of knowing, the magic and the myth of the feminine spirit which she embodies as a mother, lover, and wife. This collection is gutsy and steeped in living.-- Marian Haddad, author of Wildflower. Stone.

Pulp (English and Spanish Edition)

Celina Villagarcia

The Goatherd

THOMAS, Larry D.

Firestarters

Peggy Ann Tartt

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Scott Spanbauer. "Into orange blossoms, dancing castanets, clouding sandscapes, Laura Cesarco Eglin weaves dreamy memories of a rioplatense childhood and a maturing poet's understanding of language's ability to make, unmake, and remake the world. While 'all that remains of the sand / is the word handful,' Cesarco Eglin keeps language fresh—woodsing, outjugated, underbay—and her imaginative leaps teach us 'how to live our death' and how to live with insistent longing: 'Rewinding moments / in the shadow of later because / when I say enough it's already gone.' Through Scott Spanbauer's deft and daring translations, English speakers now have a chance to experience one of Uruguay's loveliest emerging voices."—Ron Salutsky

Llamar al agua por su nombre/Calling Water by Its Name

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