I Offer My Heart as a Target / Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana (Paz Prize for Poetry)
I Offer My Heart as a Target / Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana (Paz Prize for Poetry)

Author: Johanny Vázquez Paz

Publisher: Akashic Books

Published: 2019-12-03

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1617757691

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Introducing the new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, given by the National Poetry Series, featuring an introduction by Rigoberto González, and presented in both Spanish and English. “Winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, this dual-language book explores perseverance and survival in the face of violence, displacement, and defeat.” —Publishers Weekly “In this bilingual edition (superbly translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel) Puerto Rican poet Vázquez Paz grapples with the violence against the psyche . . . and with the violence of displacement . . . These poems are a celebration of female strength and imagination: ‘I am a woman: I endure much/ but the day is short.'”—NBC Latino, one of the Best Latino Books of 2019 Previous winners of the Paz Prize for Poetry include Miami Century Fox, by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias and translated by Eduardo Aparicio, Nine Coins/Nueve monedas, by Carlos Pintado and translated by Hilary Vaughn Dobel, and Colaterales/Collateral by Dinapiera Di Donato and translated by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado.

City of the Big Shoulders
City of the Big Shoulders

Author: Ryan G. Van Cleave

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1609380908

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Chicago has served as touchstone and muse to generations of writers and artists defined by their relationship to the city’s history, lore, inhabitants, landmarks, joys and sorrows, pride and shame. The poetic conversations inspired by Chicago have long been a vital part of America’s literary landscape, from Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks to experimental writers and today’s slam poets. The one hundred contributors to this vibrant collection take their materials and their inspirations from the city itself in a way that continues this energetic dialogue. The cultural, ethnic, and aesthetic diversity in this gathering of poems springs from a variety of viewpoints, styles, and voices as multifaceted and energetic as the city itself. Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz: “I want to eat / in a city smart enough to know that if you / are going to have that heart attack, you might / as well have the pleasure of knowing // you’ve really earned it”; Renny Golden: “In the heat of May 1937, my grandfather / sits in the spring grass of an industrial park / with hundreds of striking steelworkers”; Joey Nicoletti: “The wind pulls a muscle / as fans yell the vine off the outfield wall, / mustard-stained shirts, hot dog smiles, and all.” The combined energies of these poems reveal the mystery and beauty that is Second City, the City by the Lake, New Gotham, Paris on the Prairie, the Windy City, the Heart of America, and Sandburg’s iconic City of the Big Shoulders.

Defending Their Own in the Cold
Defending Their Own in the Cold

Author: Marc Zimmerman

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0252093496

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Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans explores U.S. Puerto Rican culture in past and recent contexts. The book presents East Coast, Midwest, and Chicago cultural production while exploring Puerto Rican musical, film, artistic, and literary performance. Working within the theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies, Marc Zimmerman relates the experience of Puerto Ricans to that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans, showing how even supposedly mainstream U.S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural "Ricanstruction." Defending Their Own in the Cold examines various dimensions of U.S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including relations with other ethnic groups and resistance to colonialism and cultural assimilation. To illustrate how Puerto Ricans have survived and created new identities and relations out of their colonized and diasporic circumstances, Zimmerman looks at the cultural examples of Latino entertainment stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Benicio del Toro, visual artists Juan Sánchez, Ramón Flores, and Elizam Escobar, as well as Nuyorican dancer turned Midwest poet Carmen Pursifull. The book includes a comprehensive chapter on the development of U.S. Puerto Rican literature and a pioneering essay on Chicago Puerto Rican writing. A final essay considers Cuban cultural attitudes towards Puerto Ricans in a testimonial narrative by Miguel Barnet and reaches conclusions about the past and future of U.S. Puerto Rican culture. Zimmerman offers his own "semi-outsider" point of reference as a Jewish American Latin Americanist who grew up near New York City, matured in California, went on to work with and teach Latinos in the Midwest, and eventually married a woman from a Puerto Rican family with island and U.S. roots.

Building Sustainable Worlds
Building Sustainable Worlds

Author: Theresa Delgadillo

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2022-07-12

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0252053540

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Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and gatherings created and maintained by creative cultural practices. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors critically examines the many ways that varied Latina/o/x communities cohere through cultural expression. Authors consider how our embodied experiences of place, together with our histories and knowledge, inform our imagination and reimagination of our surroundings in acts of placemaking. This placemaking often considers environmental sustainability as it helps to sustain communities in the face of xenophobia and racism through cultural expression ranging from festivals to zines to sanctuary movements. It emerges not only in specific locations but as movement within and between sites; not only as part of a built environment, but also as an aesthetic practice; and not only because of efforts by cultural, political, and institutional leaders, but through mass media and countless human interactions. A rare and crucial perspective on Latina/o/x people in the Midwest, Building Sustainable Worlds reveals how expressive culture contributes to, and sustains, a sense of place in an uncertain era.

Lands I Live in
Lands I Live in

Author: Zilka Joseph

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

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Poetry. In richly detailed, exuberant poems, Zilka Joseph embraces the vivid passions of her childhood home in Calcutta and the complex hopes and fears implicit in her move to the Midwest. Zilka Joseph was born in Bombay, India, She grew up and was educated in Calcutta. She moved to Chicago with her husband in 1997 and currently lives in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Candela Calle * Street Dog
Candela Calle * Street Dog

Author: Lil hArriera

Publisher:

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9789962570332

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Corre con Candela, que conoce bien las calles. ¡Baila con la culebra y toca el tambor de las ranas! ¡Vuela con Pegaso y trota con el caballito cerrero! Enséñale a maullar al gato de papel. Salta con la mascota todo terreno. Cinco poemas ingeniosos para alborotar tu risa y preguntas para alborotar tu mente. Poesía infantil bilingüe en español e inglés. Run with Candela, who knows the streets well. Dance with the snake and drum with the frogs! Fly with Pegasus and trot with the mustang! Teach the paper cat how to meow. Hop with the all-terrain pet. Five witty poems to make you smile and questions to excite your mind. Bilingual children's poetry in Spanish and English.

Instead
Instead

Author: David Lunde

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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Poetry. David Lunde's second title with Mayapple Press, INSTEAD, is a collection of the various ways memory is evoked. Lunde finds similarity between a man and his "dog-headed cane," the reconstruction of an ancient building and the uneasy integration of two cultures, and his toddler and a communist country. Each memory is provoked by a singular, vibrant image. Lunde's craft is one of images woven together with his uniquely whimsical voice. As James Sallis notes, "What we too often forget--and what Dave Lunde forever remembers-is that all art, however lofty its final reach, has its beginning in play." David Lunde has been Co-Editor and Publisher of The Basilisk Press, Contributing Editor of Escarpments, Managing Editor of Drama & Theater, and Poetry Editor of The Riverside Quarterly. He is the author of seven books and chapbooks of poems. His poems, stories and translations have appeared internationally in more than 250 periodicals and anthologies.

Parts that Were Once Whole
Parts that Were Once Whole

Author: Nancy Botkin

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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Poetry. Botkin examines questions of mortality, consciousness, and the concept of self. Although sometimes metaphysical, this subject matter doesn't alienate the reader because Botkin's clear, focused craft shapes her subject matter into a very natural-feeling art. Memories start as solid events and become fragmented over time; Botkin takes those fragments and creates a luminous image of what was once whole. Nancy Botkin's poems have appeared in numerous journals, and her chapbook, Signs of Life, was published by No Exit Press in 1999. Nancy lives in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband and teaches freshman composition and creative writing at Indiana University South Bend.