From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger

by Lorna Dee Cervantes

Book Overview

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Latino Literature Prize. Cervantes stretches the resources of language, imagery, and the dialectics of love, hunger, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558850333
• ISBN13: 9781558850330
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

rare level of art and commitment and life

Lorna is rare in her craft, in her ability to transmit the reality of life, to situate that in a way that opens to those who do not immediately share her experiences, but at the same time place this where it belongs in her undiminished political commiment not just to the struggle of chicanas and indigenous people, but the general struggle the oppressed face around the world. Even if you are oblivious to politics, gender, Chicana power, you will find yourself seeing your own life more clearly in her words about hers. A great book for teachers, particularly in community colleges and high schools. She writes about the real life working class students, particularly young women face, not about the normal white middle class alienation too many of our good poets seem to dwell on. This book belongs in every book shelf, in every home.

An extraordinary collection.

This book has been around for awhile, and I've yet to read a poetry book by a Chinana who surpasses this writer's scope in subject and language. With a strong voice and a keen ear for rhtyhm, this is a masterpiece in the growing canon of Mexican American letters.