Etiqueta: Alicia Gaspar De Alba
Sangre En El Desierto Las Muertas De Juarez
Its the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Juarez, Mexico, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of […]
Three Times A Woman
This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by three outstanding Chicana poets. Alicia Gaspar de Alba cultivates a poetry of paradox that explores the borders between politics and the sexes. Maria Herrera-Sobeks collection is suffused with memories that keep alive the dead, and that, with the help of ars poetica, reorder lives and events that […]
