| Description |
xi, 76 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"A timely new edition of a pioneering work in Latino literature, National Book Award nominee Gary Soto's first collection (originally published in 1977) draws on California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, the people, the place, and the hard agricultural work done there by immigrants. In these poems, joy and anger, violence and hope are placed in both the metaphorical and very real circumstances of the Valley. Rooted in personal experiences--of the poet as a young man, his friends, family, and neighbors--the poems are spare but expansive, with Soto's voice as important as ever. This welcome new edition has been expanded with a crucial selection of complementary poems (some previously unpublished) and a new introduction by the author"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Mexican American authors.
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Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- San Joaquin Valley -- Poetry.
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Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- San Joaquin Valley -- Social life and customs.
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Migrant agricultural laborers in literature.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781452170138 (paperback) |
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