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Un Trip through the Mind Jail y otras Excursions

Author: Raul Salinas

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Un Trip through the Mind Jail stands as one of the seminal works of the modern-day Chicano literary movement. First published in 1980 and long out of print, it captures some twenty years of poetry (as well las prose and art) reflecting the political land cultural upheavals of America in the 1960s and 1970s--much of which time Salinas spent in prison.

Poems such as "Epiphy" and "Los Cuadillos" crystallize a period characterized by such iconic figures as Cesar Chavez, Janis Joplin, Fidel Castro, prison activist George Jackson, and the Sandinistas. Some readers, however, may be drawn instead to Salinas's more personal lyrics, including "A Trip through the Mind Jail" and "Journey II," in which the poet looks back movingly on his youth in the barrios of Austin, Texas, and his troubled life in and out of confinement. Salinas's distinctive voice reveals not only the influence of his Mexican-American heritage but also the ambiance of Jazz musicians and the poets and writers of the Beat movement.

This idiosyncratic mixture of the political and the intensely personal makes Un Trip through the Mind Jail not only an authentic document of its time but a work of enduring impact.

We We? Oui! A Collection of Love Poems for my Lilly

Author: Gregorio C. Pedroza

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--Greg Pedroza

Woman, Woman

Author: Angela de Hoyos

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The crisp, clean voices in Angela de Hoyos' poetry have resounded on four continents, garnering awards for her art in the Orient, Europe, South America and the United States. A native of Mexico and long-time resident of San Antonio, De Hoyos continues to publish her works in English and Spanish-- her mastery of both languages is unsurpassed--throughout the world: India, England, Switzerland, Australia, Argentina, Mexico...her previous books include Arise Chicano and Other Poems (Bloomington: Backstage Books, 1975), and Selecciones (Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 1976).

In Woman, Woman, Angela de Hoyos devotes full attention to a leitmotif present in most of her works: That dynamic tension which both unites and separates male and female. In De Hoyos' poems that tension is always erotically charged, always threatening to one sex or the other, always reverberating in the political. And it always results in the creation of a new art, a new esthetic.

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