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Poetry. Villanueva's poems fuse the personal and the political, anchoring the abstract in the sensual world and revealing a belief in the power of language to connect us to the world, to each other, and to ourselves. We are all witness to our human history, (from Witness), and Villanueva's witnessing takes the form of honest poems that employ a clarity of perception to inspire their readers. Villanueva won the Latino Literature Prize in 1994 f...

El ambiente nuestro examines in unprecedented depth homoerotic issues in the writing of such authors as John Rechy, Michael Nava, Francisco Alarcsn, and Richard Rodriguez. David William Foster explores the important body of writing on these issues that began with John Rechy's founding texts of Chicano narrative and continues with more recent works such as Jaime Manrique's Eminent Maricones. While not a historical survey of Latino homoerotic wr...

Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. Travel Literature. A warm and funny travelogue that delves into the drinks and related culture the authors discovered in their many travels throughout Mexico. Unlike typical travelogues, LIQUID MEXICO shows how distinctive spirits such as tequila and mezcal came to play a prominent role in Mexico's culture and how they now fit into the nation's intriguing culinary and social environment. Each chapter fo...