Etiqueta: Demetria Martinez

When Grandpa Luiss grandchildren are visiting him in Chimayo, New Mexico, they see pictures of animals in one of the tortillas he has cooked for their breakfast.

In Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana, celebrated author Demetria Martinez gives voice to her own tongue-tied generation by sharing her deeply personal views of the world. In a series of essays, Martinez brings her trademark blend of humor and irony to bear on a variety of topics. Demonstrating her passion for searching out the truth […]

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 […]