Author: Javier O. Huerta
Publisher: Arte Publico Pre
Keywords: poemas, otros, clarifications
Number of Pages: 53
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1558855009
ISBN-13: 9781558855007

In his poem, Toward a Portrait of the Undocumented, Javier O. Huerta writes, "The economy is a puppeteer / manipulating my feet. / (Who’s in control when you dance?) / Pregnant with illegals, the Camaro / labors up the road; soon I will be born." Sharing similar experiences with the more than 11 million undocumented people who live in United States, Javier O. Huerta struggles with his own sense of loss, caught between his life here and his past in Mexico. "Soy nadiense," he writes in another poem--I am from nowhere. Fluent in English and Spanish, Huerta writes poems in both languages, an

Author: Sabine R. Ulibarri
Publisher: Arte Publico Pre
Keywords: condor, stories, otros, cuentos
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1989-12-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0934770921
ISBN-13: 9780934770927

This bilingual collection includes new stories set in the Southwestern United States and in South America, mainly Ecuador. The stories deal with love, culture conflict and Mexican Americans in an evolving political and econimic environment in modern-day New Mexico. "Ulibarri’s narratives have a freshness to them, a playfulness, reading like bedtime stories a parent might tell a child. The insouciant manner in which they are delivered gives them a personable warmth and charm" (from The Short Story Review).

Author: Jorge Huerta
Publisher: Arte Publico Pre
Keywords: chicano, experience, plays, six, theater, necessary
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1989-07-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0934770956
ISBN-13: 9780934770958

From Library Journal: "The plays’ stylistic variety... combined with useful introductions both to the collection as a whole and to each of the scripts, enhances the anthology’s value. Recommneded especially for libraries serving Hispanic communities."

Author: Edgardo Vega Yunqué
Publisher: Arte Publico Pre
Keywords: report, casualty
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1991-05-01
List price: $9.50
ISBN-10: 1558850341
ISBN-13: 9781558850347

The stories in this collection slice through the levels of Hispanic life in the city to reveal a richness and a diversity of experience, but also the promise of flowering or the threat of chaos and destruction.

Authors:Diane Gonzales Bertrand,  Karina Hernandez,
Publisher: Arte Publico Pre
Keywords: reves, cabeza, backwards, upside
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1558854088
ISBN-13: 9781558854086

In these spunky stories, popular young adult and children’s author Diane Gonzales Bertrand creates a raucous collection of rowdy fun in a bilingual format for intermediate readers. Ten-year-olds Miguel and Ángel get so excited about the family’s new truck that they take it for a spin. Luis rebels when his antiquated Tía Anita wants him to give his friend Diana a hairy pink thing and a box of powder that smells like cat litter. Norma dresses up like Queen Isabella and steals the spotlight from the class clowns. Alonso’s day sours when he lies to claim a blue-ribbon prize in the science fai

Author: Alba N. Ambert
Publisher: Arte Publico Pre
Keywords: silence, perfect
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 1995-03-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1558851259
ISBN-13: 9781558851252

novel of poverty & oppression in the South Bronx

Author: Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Publisher: Arte Publico Pre
Keywords: time, trino
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1558853170
ISBN-13: 9781558853171

With the help of some friends and a Tejano hero that he discovers in history class, thirteen-year-old Trino copes with his problems and his world.