Take a trip with the Barrio Poet from El Salvador to East L.A. and fi nally to Texas in this premiere collection of poems by a man who escaped the fate of many in the barrios of La Lucha and turned those experiences into poetry. This book is as much a story of struggle and survival wrapped in poetic verse as it is a love story for life.
In his second collection of poetry, Edward Vidaurre, an emerging voice in Latino lit, offers new poems focusing on--and inspired by--bouts of insomnia, death, grief, loss, love, desire, and the vivid dream-like imagery that a lack of sleep creates. With an introduction by award-winning poet Katherine Hoerth, editor at Lamar University Press.Pick up this book on those weird and wonderful nights when it's 2:07 a.m. and the waning echoes of yesterday's shattered dreams and sprightly nightmares reverberate madly against the thickly transparent rays of the moon. In this collection of poems, Edward Vidaurre captures the lingering accusations and celebrations of the night that mingle with the fresh affirmations of the morning through poems filled at times with umbrage and desperation and at others with the sort of devilish charm that has come to define his candid wit. Like a bad dream that won't go away or a good dream that just makes one's day Vidaurre's new collection, Insomnia, rouses us with a twitch and spilt coffee jerk and lulls us with knowing nods to those moments of clarity and opaqueness, of sweetness and acrimony, of haunting realism that can't help but keep us awake for just one more poem.
In this second anthology we continue to see the courage and truth in the words of our youth in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas. I am thankful for the teachers and librarians whoencourage and cultivate these young minds to write andexpress themselves through poetry. WE are extremelyfortunate to see the fruit of their labor in this anthology.There is so much heart poured into these pages, so muchsoul unleashed in black and white, and it is an honor toread their hopes and dreams. May they continue to keepdreaming, may they continue to keep writing and may weall take the time to advocate for the arts in our community- and most importantly, be an advocate for our youngpeople in the RGV.Si vas a soñar, sueña en grande.-Margie LongoriaYA LibrarianFounder of Border Book Bash: Celebrating Teens andTweens of the RGV
Beautiful Scars: Elegiac Beat Poems is an emotional pulling back of the curtain, an explosion of longing, loss, love and-always-hope. In his third collection of poetry, Edward Vidaurre, a razor-sharp voice in Hispanic American poetry, tears through layers of mourning and separation with the indomitable spirit of a man in pieces yet ultimately and unrepentantly in love and determined to stay intact. Armed with the definitive knowledge that Faith, Hope, and Love never hover too far distant, Vidaurre takes on death, grief, and loss intuitively aware that there's light at the end of the tunnel--with love unapologetically leading the way. Vidaurre's journey in Beautiful Scars includes photographs and quick sketches of the torn pieces of family and relationships but also of newly-formed creations from his reshaped world.
El Zarape Press presents Boundless 2019, the official anthology of the 12th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival. Boundless is an eclectic collection of poetry from around Texas and the U.S.A., with contributions by poets from Scotland, England, India, and Mexico. Youth Anthology is also included!The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (V.I.P.F.) is held annually in deep south Texas.www.valleypoetryfest.orgPoetry * Music * Art#VIPF2018
THE STORY: Three young couples are playing Twenty Questions. The drinks have been flowing, so the mood has gone from good to bad in a very short time. As it happens, the hostess, who has the most abrasive tongue of all, is dying of cancer, and the party e
This volume contains the nine plays written by Albee during the period from 1966 through 1977. These range from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'A Delicate Balance' to the brilliant and complex short plays 'Box' and 'Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung', to the scintillating one-act comedy 'Counting the Ways'.
A compilation of prose works by the playwright features essays on politics, culture, and the arts, reminiscences on his childhood, and critical discussion of such authors as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and James Purdy.
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