Richard Vargas is one of the best Chicano poets writing today, a voice for all as he explores the predicaments of the modern world with tenderness and fury. His is a voice we can rely on as we make our way forward to that place of mystery where, despite everything, survival seems possible as we join in the poet's song." - Demetria Martinez, author of Breathing Between The Lines, The Devil's Workshop, and 2013 American Book Award winner The Block Captain's Daughter
The Mas Tequila Review publishes "poetry for the rest of us" from across the U.S., and a few from beyond. Here, you will find poetry by some well known names, and many who should be. This issue includes: Liz Napieralski / Martina Reisz Newberry / Frank Rossini / Ted Jonathan / Merimée Moffitt / Merica Merida Teng / Cristina García / Linda Hogan / Patrick Fontes / Luivette Resto / Anya Achtenberg / Karl Koweski / Alicia Young / Tony Gloeggler / Mark J. Mitchell /Larry Goodell / Dini Karasik / Lorraine Caputo / Pam Uschuk / Casandra Lopez / Heather Bell / Ellaraine Lockie / Linda Rodriguez / Julie SuZaNNe BröKKeN / MJR Montoya / Changming Yuan /Loukia M. Janavaras / Jennifer Givhan / Alexis Rhone Fancher / Gerald Locklin / Jennifer Lynn Krohn / Justin Rogers / Lauren Espinoza / Tony Mares / Richard Vargas / Lauren Camp / Kyle Laws / David Stallings / Susan Deer Cloud / Sandra Allen / Larry Duncan / Rich BoucherSteve Christopher / Al Ortolani / Lyn Lifshin / John Yamrus / Christine DeSimone / John Trause / Rebecca Aronson / Margaret Randall / Jennifer Bradpiece / Billy Burgos / John Macker / Bob Johnston / Cover Art: Henry Denander
The Más Tequila Review #3 (TMTR) is an independently published small press poetry review, striving to bring to the public a wide variety of contemporary poetry by well-known poets, and poets who should be. TMTR is published twice a year, and considers poetry of any length, style, or form. Poets in this issue include: Mitsuye Yamada / Amorak Huey / Al MasarikJ. J. Steinfeld / Christina Socorro YovovichJames Valvis / Dennis Gulling / A. D. WinansRafael F. J. Alvarado / John Sandoval / Marge PiercyJacqueline Pham / Carrie Cutler / Gerald LocklinJoel Allegretti / Ed Field / Lauren SchwartzMargaret Randall / Virgil Suarez / John MackerRobin Scolfield / Andrés Rodriguez / Mary OishiCarlos Cumpián / Richard Vargas / Joaquín Zihuatanejo / Maria Miranda Maloney / Mather Schneider / Frank Reardon / David Plumb / John Bennett / Mark Weber / Daniel Aristi / Linda Leedy Schneider / Renny Golden / Doug Draime / Gary Jackson / Georgia Santa-Maria / Kenneth Pobo / M. P. Powers / Virginia Fultz / Kenneth P. Gurney
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation — from his past, his parents, his culture — and so describes the high price of “making it” in middle-class America. Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language ... and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.
Abraham Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican novelist, short story author, and musician who spends much of his time in Germany. This timely book features an in-depth look at the life of the author as well as a close examination of his most widely read works. Each work covered reveals plot summary, excerpts, character analysis, and literary themes. Critical analysis within each of Rodriguez�s work is presented while students learn how to identify themes, analyze how elements in the text interact, and how to identify the informational context behind fictional treatment of words.
Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, is widely recognised as one of the greatest noir films of Classical Hollywood cinema. Richard Deming's study of the film considers it as an outstanding example of the noir genre and explores its complex relationship to its source novel, Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson. He traces the film's production history, and provides an insightful close analysis of its key scenes, including its famous opening sequence, a single take in which the camera follows a booby-trapped car on its journey through city streets and across the border.
In Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America, Richard L. Jackson explores literary Americanism through writings of black Hispanic authors such as Carlos Guillermo Wilson, Quince Duncan, and Nelson Estupiñán Bass that in many ways provide a microcosm for the larger literature. Jackson traces the roots of Afro-Hispanic literature from the early twentieth-century Afrocriollo movement--the Harlem Renaissance of Latin America--to the fiction and criticism of black Latin Americans today. Black humanism arose from Afro-Hispanics' self-discovery of their own humanity and the realization that over the years they had become not only defenders of threatened cultures but also symbolic guardians of humanity. This humanist tradition had enabled writers such as Manuel Zapata Olivella to write of a Latin America "from below" the slave-ship deck and "from inside" the mind of Africa. Though many writers have adopted black literary models in their quest for a "poetry of sources, of fundamental human values," Jackson demonstrates that literature about blacks by blacks themselves is clearly separate from, yet instrumental to, these other works. Relating the vision of Latin American blacks not only to other Latin American writers but also to North American literary critics such as Eugene Goodheart and John Gardner, Jackson stresses the universal power of resisting oppression and injustice through the language of humanism.
Peter Stern is asked by the senior partner in his law firm to investigate the death of a lawyer in a tragic event, where he is burned gruesomely while barbecuing a steak at his mountain cabin. With a double-indemnity life insurance policy, Sterns death must be proven to be an accident or a homicide, with large financial consequences for his estate, but the will is missing. So he draws the interest of the long-absent sister, Honey Horton, or the close friend and named beneficiary Alicia Allende. These women each draw him into their worlds. Honey as a Casino hostess and Alicia as a well-connected politician. The plot twists and turns as Stern meets numerous conflicts of interest and is threatened or cajoled into choosing sides.
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day. The authors have scoured documents and legal decisions to trace the rise of the mysterious Pueblo League between 1700 and 1821 as the basis of Pueblo land under Spanish rule. They have also provided a detailed analysis of Pueblo lands after 1821 to determine how the Pueblos and their non-Indian neighbors reacted to the change from Spanish to Mexican and then to U.S. sovereignty. Characterized by success stories of protection of Pueblo land as well as by centuries of encroachment by non-Indians on Pueblo lands and resources, this is a uniquely New Mexican history that also reflects issues of indigenous land tenure that vex contested territories all over the world.
For over twelve years in the first half of the nineteenth century, Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, lived, learned and fought in South America. He was tortured, escaped death on countless occasions, and met his Brazilian wife, Anita, who eloped with him in 1839. From then on, she would share in Garibaldi's personal and political odyssey, first in the breakaway republic of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, and then as Montevideo's admiral and general in the Uruguayan civil war. Richard Bourne breathes life and understanding into these spectacular South American adventures, which also shed light on the creation of Italy. Garibaldi's Redshirts liberated Sicily and Naples wearing ponchos adopted by his Italian Legion in Montevideo. His ideas, his charismatic command of volunteers, and his naive dislike of politicking were all infused by his earlier experiences in South America. Bourne combines historical research with his travels in Uruguay and southern Brazil to explore contemporary awareness of and reflection on how the past can influence or be transformed by the needs of today. Now, at a time of narrow identity politics, Garibaldi's unifying zeal and advocacy for subjugated peoples everywhere offer an exemplary lesson in transnational political idealism.
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