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Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems By Chris Baron, Heather Eudy, Cali Linfor & Sabrina Youmans Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems is a luminous collaboration that explores life's spaces––the lanterns of relation, journey, spirit, desire, loss, and home. At once disparate and entangled, the voices found here are those of Chris Baron in Under the Broom Tree, Heather Eudy in Bills of Lading, Cali Linfor in A Book of Ugly Things, and Sabrina Youmans in Pacific Standard Time. The lantern tree acknowledges that many hands are needed to assemble the possibility of light. But, of course, each book is a thing of its own, hangs a light of its own, makes and unmakes a home of its own. To read these poems is to be transported and rooted within shadow and light. |
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Wounded Border Edited By Justin Akers Chacon and Enrique Davalos Wounded Border / Frontera Herida contains cutting-edge research and analysis of the important issues emerging from the U.S.-Mexico Border region today. Taking a bi-national and bilingual approach, Wounded Border / Frontera Herida captures the multiple voices and experiences of scholars, researchers, and community-based activists residing on both sides of the international boundary. Wounded Border / Frontera Herida offers a unique and essential narrative from a region that both intertwines and divides nations and peoples. |
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Vanishing Acts By
Forrest Hylton Vanishing Acts traces the arc of descent of a young American anthropologist, Richard Melville, as he tries to navigate the shifting currents of intrigue and seduction churning around him in Medellin, Colombia - a tropical city of frightening beauty and violence. Ignoring the advice of Baston, his paranoid informant and would-be guardian angel, Richard pursues Maria Isabel, a beautiful yet elusive student activist, into a labyrinth of danger and desire. This award-winning novel is published with dialogue in its original Spanish with an English translation version at the back. |
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Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting Edited By Alys Masek and Kelly Mayhew In this lively and engrossing collection, these texts explore all aspects of parenthood from the first stirrings of desire for a baby to the bittersweet experience of watching your children go off into the world without you. In poetry, fiction and essays, the writers examine the primal and powerful bond of love between parent and child. Writers share their most intimate experiences of motherhood and fatherhood. The book celebrates the satisfaction and joy that parenthood offers. Yet it does not shy away from the dark side of parenting. Writers offer up eloquent and honest testimonies to their anger, frustrations, doubts and failures as parents. Pieces range from the laugh out loud funny stories of Sam Apple's foray into a Mommy and Me yoga class with his son and Neal Pollack's adventures with his son's initial attempts at texting, to Wanda Coleman's stark poetry of poverty and Ella Wilson's quietly devastating account of her brush with post-partum depression. The contributors survey everything from the emotional toll of IVF to the perils and rewards of international adoption. Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of parenting. |
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Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment By Ella deCastro Baron Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment is an ironic Curriculum Vitae where life and work experiences one wouldn't want a potential employer to know are highlighted using vulnerability, wit, observation, and candor. Ella deCastro Baron—a first generation Asian American woman challenged by her parents' faith, inherited sickness, and questionable life choices—shares of beginning and ending relationships, restlessness, miracles, prejudice, entitlement, and community. She leaves it up to the reader to decide, after assessing her background, education, professional experience, fieldwork, high (and low) achievements, if she is someone worth investing in. |
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Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash, and Words Edited By: Donna J. Watson, Michelle Sierra, and Lucia Gbaya-Kanga This anthology initiates us into one of the most sacred domestic rituals of our mundane world—the purging of physical and psychic stains, or the art and work of doing laundry. The writers' voices rise above the sounds of washing machines, non-televised daytime dramas, and laughter. Removing the clothespins from their mouths, these women reveal their secrets, fears, loves, and regrets in poem and story form. As finely detailed as the vintage sleeve of a rummage sale find, the work in "Lavanderia" brings the circle closer to home as you find yourself nodding and remembering and thanking every woman who ever sat next to you in a laundromat and made conversation. |
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Dynamite and Dreams By Robert V. Hine This novel is based on the life of Job Harriman, a well-known free speech lawyer and, in 1911, the socialist candidate for mayor in Los Angeles. It is a fictional account of life in the utopian, turn-of-the-century Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony north of L.A., which Harriman helped to establish in 1914. |
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Hunger and Thirst Edited by Nancy Cary More than eighty contributors offer up unique views of food and drink, what we hunger for, what pains us or sustains us, what brings us joy as individuals, as family, as culture. This collection of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and art invites you to sit at the collective table we share as the human community. |
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Peeping Tom Tom Girl By Marisela Norte Peeping Tom Tom Girl is the first collection of poetry by Marisela Norte, the incredible and audacious spoken word poet from Los Angeles. Winner of San Diego City Works Press's Ben Reitman Award, this collection of Norte's poems takes her readers on fantastic journeys into the heart and soul of what it means to be Chicana, human, a woman in 21st Century Southern California. |
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Rita and Julia By Jimmy Santiago Baca Rita and Julia is an extraordinary collection of poetry that takes the reader from the depths of despair through outrage to transcendent joy. In these searingly intense poems, Baca inhabits the subjects of his poems and makes them sing. |
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Atacama Poems By Adrian Arancibia Long before maquiladoras and transnational migrations, there were pampinos who worked mines owned by American companies in Latin America. Their lives are inspirations, their toils directions of where the spirit can survive. Atacama Poems offers reminders of the importance of fulfilling dreams and remembering those who made them possible. A multi-generational family album, where voices carry like echoes. |
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The Unmaking of Americans: 7 Lives By Mel Freilicher Dorthy Dandridge, Bettie Page, Joey Stefano, Margaret Fuller, Margaret Sanger, Bayard Rustin, Billy Stayhorn. The Unmaking of Americans: 7 Lives sketches an accurate outline of these admirable, complex, and in some cases, tragic lives as they have been depicted by their principle biographers. |
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Drift By Jim Miller A new novel by City Works Press co-founder Jim Miller on University of Oklahoma Press with art by San Diego Writers Collective members Perry Vasquez and Jennifer Cost.
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Gods of Rapture: Poems in the Erotic Mood By Steve Kowit Kowit is one of the best-known poets in San Diego with an enormous following. The poems are based on the ancient amatory poems of India written in Sanskrit. Art--drawings, portraits, and sketches --accompany the poems throughout the text. Click here to buy Gods of Rapture Available for only $12.95 |
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The Commuters By Cheryl Klein The Commuters is a novel composed of intersecting stories about people who live in Los Angeles. From an immigrant garment worker, struggling to exist in an often cruel city, to a lonely foster child, who uses arson to express himself, Klein's novel delicately and deftly probes the inner lives of her compelling cast of characters. Click here to buy The Commuters Available for only $12.95 |
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Sunshine/Noir A
groundbreaking and innovative collection of San Diego/Tijuana writing
edited by Jim Miller co-author of Under the Perfect Sun
featuring: Click here for more information. Click here to buy Sunshine/Noir Available for only $12.95 |
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City Works 2008 Edited by Chris Baron Since 1994, City Works has been publishing the poetry, fiction, prose, and artwork of City College students along with the work of local and national writers and artists. Available for only $6.00
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Delicious Betrayal Valerie E. Shields De-li-cious:
1. Latin, from delicere; To entice away. Be-tray-al: 1. To lead astray. 2. To seduce and forsake (a woman) Available for only $4.00
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air ship man j.e. rowan " ... in this moment of true nakedness you experience a strange absence of fear. And it is its absence that scares you ..."
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The Mysterious Sound of Buddy Bolden Poems and Stories by Rob Novak They say that he was the greatest who ever lived, that he played that thing with such ferocious passion that grown men on sailing ships in the Gulf leaped overboard, sad for Storyville. -From the poem: The Mysterious Sound of Buddy Bolden Available for only $4.00
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Vox Saxophonos Luis Omar Lopez A surreal rant. Vox Saxaphonos is Dada poetry for the postmodern age. Luis Omar Lopez has written "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" like T.S. Eliot in the midst of a psychotic break. Available for only $4.00
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