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• My Wicked Wicked Ways

  Poems

  Cisneros, Sandra,

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• The Hurting Kind

  Limón, Ada,

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  Ada Limon is the 24th poet laureate of the United States. “I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Carrying

  Poems

  Limón, Ada,

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  From Goodreads: "From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Resistencia

  Poems of Protest and Revolution

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  "With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and by some of the most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Postcolonial Love Poem

  Diaz, Natalie,

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  From Goodreads: "Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spines of Love by Victor Teran | Hoopla

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  "The Spines of Love collects work from Víctor Terán's poetic oeuvre for the first time in a trilingual edition: in their original Isthmus Zapotec (an endangered indigenous Mexican language) and in David Shook's Spanish and English translations.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Museum of the Americas

  Martinez, J. Michael, 1978-

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  "Winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity. The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tertiary

  Lo Terciario

  Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel,

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  "Written in response to the PROMESA bill (Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act) bill, LO TERCIARIO/THE TERCIARY offers a decolonial queer critique and reconsideration of Marx. The book's titles come from Pedro Scaron's El…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• MyOther Tongue

  Alcalá, Rosa,

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  From Publishers Weekly: "Alcalá (Undocumentaries) reminds readers how much a spoken tongue shapes its speaker, in an emotionally intelligent second collection that addresses language and lineage as well as mothers and daughters. Rendering well the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Looking for the Gulf Motel

  Blanco, Richard, 1968-

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  "For this author family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning. This, his third book of poetry, is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family's emotional legacy has shaped, and continues shaping, his perspectives. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera | Hoopla

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  "A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope."

• All the Odes

  Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973,

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  "The first book to collect all of Pablo Neruda's odes, in any language."

• The Trouble Ball

  Poems

  Espada, Martín, 1957-

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  "In this collection of poems, Martín Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, in 1941, where his Puerto Rican father realizes, at the age of eleven, that dark-skinned players are not allowed on the field; the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lineage of Rain by Janel Pineda | Hoopla

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  "Lineage of Rain traces histories of Salvadoran migration and the US-sponsored civil war to reimagine trauma as a site for transformation and healing. With a scholar's caliber, Pineda archives family memory, crafting a collection that centers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moonmilk and Other Poems

  Hernández Peña, Carlos,

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  "Hernandez Pena's influences are the daily papers and his ancient Pre-Columbian family's posited tales all artfully played in stop-motion and flute-whistle. "To write poetry, Carlos Hernandez Pena gives up his native Spanish and uses English-his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets From The Dominican Republic by Aída Cartagena Portalatin, Angela Hernández Núñez, and Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo | Hoopla

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  "This landmark anthology gives voice to three powerful women poets from the Dominican Republic. Together they present a wide array of linguistic and stylistic elements, and they address shared political and cultural issues that illuminate what it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Poems of Octavio Paz

  Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998,

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  "In 1990, the Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize in Literature "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity." Paz is "a writer for the entire world to celebrate"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Mesa Poems

  Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 1952-

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  "Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1987). "Baca's evocation of this landscape," asCity Paper…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woman I Kept to Myself

  Poems

  Alvarez, Julia,

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  "75 Poems by the Author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What the Body Told

  Campo, Rafael,

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  "What the Body Told is the second book of poetry from Rafael Campo, a practicing physician, a gay Cuban American, and winner of the National Poetry Series 1993 Open Competition. Exploring the themes begun in his first book, The Other Man Was Me ,…Read moreRead more of this annotation