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Author
Series
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"In his second book of poetry, Richard Blanco explores the universal desire for home through evocative narratives, playful musings, and lyrical power. These poems take us on a relentless journey to Spain, Italy, France, Guatemala, Brazil, Cuba, and New England, as they examine the ideal of home and the connections we seek through place, culture, family, love, and art."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Using archival film and photo materials, Cuban director Manuel Perez paints a personal portrait of Che Guevara, the legend and symbol of revolution.
Usando películas y fotografías de los archivos, el director cubano Manuel Perez hace un bosquejo personal de Che Guevara, el legendario símbolo de la revolución.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"For nearly four decades, Juan Felipe Herrera has documented his experience as a Chicano in the United States and Latin America through stunning, memorable poetry that is both personal and universal in its impact, themes, and approach. Often political, never fainthearted, his career has been marked by tremendous virtuosity and a unique sensibility for uncovering the unknown and the unexpected. Through a variety of stages and transformations, Herrera...
12) Faith run: poems
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
15) The darling
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A reinscription of Chekhov's short story 'The Darling' and set in Los Angeles in the 1970s through the present, the book tells the story of a young Latina who falls out of love again and again, with much help from Chekhov, Flaubert, Dreiser, Lawrence, Nabokov, and other deceased white men of letters"--
16) Camino Island
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
17) On the Camino
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
May 2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Northwestern Spain, observed with the eye of an artist, chronicling both the good (people, conversations) and the bad (blisters, bedbugs) he encountered on his journey. Full of quiet incidents, odd encounters, small triumphs, and the occasional setback, On the Camino is the first implicitly autobiographical long-form work by a master cartoonist.
19) Camino winds
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen - even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Alberto Ríos's new picaresque novel, momentous adventure and quiet connection bring twenty people to life in a small town in northern Mexico. A Good Map of All Things is home to characters whose lives are interwoven but whose stories are their own. Whether your heart belongs to a small town in Mexico or a bustling metropolis, Alberto Ríos has crafted a book overflowing with comfort, humor, warmth, and the familiar embrace of a tightly woven...
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