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A fifteen year archive of real American life, a testament of democracy in verse, from the gritty streets of East Los Angeles to lonely Indiana avenues. The work in this anthology explores the tough and the tender, the personal as political, with humor, passion, humanity, and grace. It addresses both thematic and craft issues.

'My Sweet Unconditional' is a collection of poems by Ariel Robello. With her words, she cuts away at the political dogma and superficial beauty of a world unhinged to reveal a bloody but dignified glimpse of love in the hands of a New World survivor.

In this debut collection, Angela Shannon's poetry bridges the real world of work, hardship and celebration, and the spirit world of ancestors, remembrance and faith. The historical sweep of her work is from the Middle Passage to post-integration America.

A collection of poetry that focuses on the experience and voices of women. Engaged with living speech and the larger implications of the everyday, this book aims to restore to the reader the missing episodes of ordinary life.

This work is the author's allegorical search for his father's ghost. It is the lyrical story of the burial of a salesman, of the man's juvenile delinquent son, and of driving round the city when the son was excused from school.

Every week at the Guild Complex--Chicago's internationally renowned cross-cultural literary center--poets open themselves up to the audience. Power Lines celebrates the first decade of the Guild Complex, its poets, and its publishing wing, Tia Chucha Press.

Poetry. As Yevgeny Yevtushenko recounts, "Ricardo Sanchez was one of the creators of la poesia chicana and his voice was the concentrate of many silent voices. His written poetry was ambassador of the non-written sufferings of so many chicanos, whose barefoot feet were in the USA, but whose barefoot soul was endlessly walking sobre la tierra seca mexicana, muriendo de la sed". Ricardo Sanchez (1941-1995) is considered one of the fathers of the Chicano literary genre and is one of the most published and widely anthologized Chicano writers. His family had roots in New Mexico for five generations, but he was raised in El Paso, Texas. Sanchez earned a PhD in American studies and cultural linguistic theory from the Union Graduate School in Cincinatti, Ohio, and taught in several schools throughout the US. He traveled continuously, lecturing and reading. "The Loves of Ricardo" is published posthumously. Sanchez's papers are archived at the University of Texas, Austin, and at Stanford University.

Poetry. As Yevgeny Yevtushenko recounts, "Ricardo Sanchez was one of the creators of la poesia chicana and his voice was the concentrate of many silent voices. His written poetry was ambassador of the non-written sufferings of so many chicanos, whose barefoot feet were in the USA, but whose barefoot soul was endlessly walking sobre la tierra seca mexicana, muriendo de la sed". Ricardo Sanchez (1941-1995) is considered one of the fathers of the Chicano literary genre and is one of the most published and widely anthologized Chicano writers. His family had roots in New Mexico for five generations, but he was raised in El Paso, Texas. Sanchez earned a PhD in American studies and cultural linguistic theory from the Union Graduate School in Cincinatti, Ohio, and taught in several schools throughout the US. He traveled continuously, lecturing and reading. "The Loves of Ricardo" is published posthumously. Sanchez's papers are archived at the University of Texas, Austin, and at Stanford University.

Poetry encompassing Chicano life by Chicago publisher of MARCH/Abrazo.

Night Song is a poetry book about Latin American life in the Midwest.

Falling Wallendas was intended to have a single point of view, that of an older man who resists looking back and tries to look ahead in his life. It resulted from a performance piece of the same name and was chosen for the Tia Chucha list by their editorial board. Many of the poems have been published in anthologies and magazines. Most recently, "The Ice Worm" has been included in The Spoken Word Revolution (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks mediaFusion, 2003), 143-44.

The Northeast San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles is the second largest community of Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States with 500,000 people. Yet, until 2001 the Northeast Valley had no trade bookstores, movie houses, art galleries, or decent cultural spaces. That year Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural opened its doors, first as a cultural café, which in ten years has provided workshops in music, visual arts, dance, theater, writing, and indigenous cosmology--along with an art gallery, a poetry press, a youth empowerment project, and the only annual outdoor literacy and performance festival in the area, "Celebrating Words: Written, Performed & Sung."

Tracking a nonlinear trek across terrain as distinct as Timbuktu and Baton Rouge, and beliefs as "contrary" as Christianity and Communism, in The Armageddon of Funk Michael Warr manages to interconnect a world of opposites.

José Antonio Rodríguez's poetry is one of memory, both private and public. It is grounded in storytelling and lyricism that reveal a speaker's developing awareness as he traverses borders of nation, language, class, and sexuality. The poems move back and forth between a home left behind on the south side of the Rio Grande and a new home on the north side. Both awe-struck by and apprehensive of the world around him, the speaker searches for a way to claim a new space, a place of belonging. Through these poems, both lyrical and narrative, tender and tense, familiar and estranging, the poet invites us to examine the very concept of home--how we define it, what constitutes it, the ways it can be destabilized and how, in the most trying times, we must learn to sustain the hope of it in our hearts.

A collection of poems by a Native American poet, who articlates the edge between two disparate cultures and the challenges of attempting to live in both.

Constructed from memory and imagination, Blues Narratives' portraits of the poet's mother and grandfather burst into language and song, shaped by Sterling Plumpp's extraordinary sense of the rhythms of speech and the poetic line, his dazzling metaphors, and his ability to turn language inside out and upside down by looking within the words and rhythms of what we commonly say without thinking. He brings something new into American poetry both technically and spiritually, for his project involves art, language, and a cultural and individual sense of self. In order to discover and invent his own identity, he reaches back as far as the first ancestor of whom he can know -- the woman Mfua, kidnapped in Africa, enslaved, and brought to America. Twentieth-century Mary and Victor, as they are portrayed in Blues Narratives, not only live their own lives of pain, sorrow, dignity, and love, but also embody aspects of Mfua that they bring down through the years with them and pass on to those in their care. These blues narratives are a form and a dialogue between poet and subject unlike anything else in American poetry: a vital, passionate, haunting poetry that is meant to be read and spoken and sung.

This is an urban hymn to elemental influences These poems are about an adult search for deep humanity and the best of community. This book crystallizes Peter Harris's most expansive quest for a creative voice of individuality and inspiration.

A reprint of the author's ""Body of Life,"" first published in 1996.