My own true name
Adults and children alike have long admired Pat Mora"s extraordinary and diverse gifts. She has won awards and received acclaim for both her Poesía (Borders, Chants, Communion, and other works) and her charming children"s books (Delicious Hullabaloo, Tomás and the Library Lady, The Desert Is My Mother, and many more). Arte Público Press is pleased to pressent a major selection of poems chosen by Pat Mora herself with young-adult readers in mind. Using the cactus plant as her guiding metaphor for our existence, she present more than sixty poems grouped variously into "Blooms, " "Thorns, " and "Roots....
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My own true name
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Outlaw : the collected works of Miguel Angel Piñero
"A thief, a junkie I"ve been / committed every known sin, " Miguel Piñero sings in "A Lower East Side Poem. " Part observer, part participant in the turbulent goings-on in his Nuyorican barrio, Miguel Piñero blasted onto the literary scene and made waves in the artistic current with his dramatic interpretations of the world around him through experimental Poesía, prose, and plays. Portrayed by actor Benjamin Bratt in the 2001 feature film Piñero, the poet"s works are as rough and gritty as the New York City underworld he wrote about and loved. "So here I am, look at me / I stand proud as you can see...
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Silent dancing : a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood
"Silent Dancing" es una narrativa personal compuesta por los recuerdos de Judith Ortiz Cofer de su infancia bilingüe y bicultural que moldeó su personalidad como escritora y artista. Hija de un hombre de la Marina, Ortiz Cofer nació en Puerto Rico y pasó su infancia yendo y viniendo entre la pequeña ciudad de la isla donde nació y Nueva Jersey. Con una prosa fluida, clara y perspicaz, así como con los poemas que incluye para resaltar los temas principales, Ortiz Cofer ha añadido un capítulo importante a la autobiografía, la creatividad hispanoamericana y la literatura femenina.
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Song of the Hummingbird
From Aztec princess to slave and concubine, Hummingbird - or Huitzitzilín in her native Nahuatl - recounts her life during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. She experienced first-hand the wonder of gods" arrival— those bearded, armored men who descended from their vessels on horseback— and the brutal devastation of her land and her people. She witnessed the obliteration of Tenochtitlán and suffered the loss of her identity, being forced to discard her traditional garb, to speak a language foreign to her tongue, and to forsake her ancestral gods. < br> Expressing a confidence and...
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The river flows North
A group of immigrants circles around a coyote, who will— for a price— lead them across the treacherous desert to the Estados Unidos. Fearful that he may be one of those who will collect their money up front and then leave them stranded to die, the travelers ultimately are forced to put their trust in him and begin the dangerous crossing to a new life. Afraid even of each other, they initially avoid eye contact or conversation. But as the three-day passage across the blistering landscape progresses, the fight to survive the grueling trip ensures that their lives— and deaths—...
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Two badges : the lives of Mona Ruiz
With this riveting autoBiografías, Mona Ruiz and co-author Geoff Boucher spin a gripping tale of one woman"s private war to escape the tentacles of the street gangs that have carved her barrio into turfs where one misstep leads to violence. This engrossing memoir charts Ruiz"s journey toward self-identity, tracing the tortuous path of her life— a life in which Ruiz assumed contradictory roles: gang chola, high school drop-out, disowned daughter, battered wife, welfare mother, student, and policewoman. At each step in the journey, Ruiz faced violence, ridicule, and skepticism. She nevertheless...
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Hispanic, Female and Young
To be young, female and Latina in the kaleidoscopic world of New York City is the reality Phyllis Tashlik captured in this multifaceted volume. The voices that speak through its pages are Las Mujeres Hispanas, a group of Latina teenagers at Manhattan East, a public alternative school in New York City"s El Barrio. They met throughout the course of a year to read and discuss their reactions to the works of renowned female Hispanic authors as well as the concerns born from their own identities. Individually and as a collectivity they went on to write poems, stories, essays and interviews with prominent...
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No. 01 Documentos en barro. Artesanía prehispánica
Muestra de qué manera los objetos prehispánicos expresan el pensamiento de las sociedades que los fabricaron. Examina las cualidades de la cerámica como son su estilo, cronología y estado de conservación. Explica de manera detallada el proceso de manufactura, desde la apariencia de la arcilla hasta algunas técnicas de acabado.
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No. 01 Documentos en barro. Artesanía prehispánica
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No. 02 Los primeros alfareros en Mesoamérica. Fragmentos del formativo, cerámica preclásica
Se describe el panorama general del periodo agrícola aldeano en los diferentes periodos del Horizonte Preclásico o Formativo. Se revisan las principales características de la cerámica que prevaleció en el Preclásico hasta convertirse en las primeras formas de utensilios de barro.
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No. 02 Los primeros alfareros en Mesoamérica. Fragmentos del formativo, cerámica preclásica
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No. 03 La antigua Itzocan. Testimonios mesoamericanos
Perspectiva del desarrollo histórico de la región de Izúcar de Matamoros y del progreso tecnológico que repercutió en su cerámica. Desde la presencia del estilo olmeca, recorre la etapa del dominio teotihuacano y finaliza con la llegada de los grupos llamados olmeca-xicalanca.
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No. 03 La antigua Itzocan. Testimonios mesoamericanos