In Cipota under the Moon, Claudia Castro Luna scores a series of poems as an ode to the Salvadoran immigrant experience in the United States. The poems are wrought with memories of the 1980s civil war and rich with observations from recent returns to her native country. Castro Luna draws a parallel between the ruthlessness of the war and the violence endured by communities of color in US cities; she shows how children are often the silent, unseen victims of state sanctioned and urban violence. In lush prose poems, musical tankas, and free verse, Castro Luna affirms that the desire for light and life outweighs the darkness of poverty, violence, and war. Cipota under the Moon is a testament to the men, women, and children who bet on life at all costs and now make their home in another language, in another place, which they, by their presence, change every...
Written as a call to action, Migrant Psalms pulls together prayer, popular culture, and technology to tell a twenty‑first-century migrant story. Through the speaker’s quest to become an American, this collection asks: Who are we becoming as individuals, as a society, as a nation, as a world? And, is faith enough to enact change? Or is it just the first step?
In a simple and direct way, Ak’abal—writing in Maya K’iché—reflects the beauty, pain, sadness, and anger felt in contemporary Guatemala. He bridges a cultural divide that has plagued the Americas since the conquest, giving Indigenous peoples a voice.
When the Pipirite Sings: Selected Poems is the first major translation of the poetry of Haitian writer Jean Métellus, a poetry of nostalgia, prophecy, and empathy written from exile.
Louie Pérez is a master musician and innovative visual artist who has spent the last forty years as founding member and principal songwriter for the internationally acclaimed group Los Lobos. Working with his songwriting partner, David Hidalgo, Pérez has written more than four hundred songs. Many of those songs, along with previously unpublished poems and short stories as well as paintings, sketches, and photos, are collected in this deeply personal, yet universally appealing volume. The book also features essays by musicians, artists and scholars who artfully dissect the significance of Pérez’ work. Good Morning, Aztlán is, without question, a different kind of memoir.
ARRIVAL is a searing collective ode to the secrets and seductions of family. Award-winning poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor writes her fourth collection with the chadon beni of her Trinidadian heritage with decadent lines of brimful free-verse poems.
Edited by Leticia Hernandez-Linares and Rubén Martínez
by Héctor Tobar and Juan José Dalton
Tia Chucha Press is proud to reprint by popular demand this anthology of work by Central American writers living in the United States. The Wandering Song captures the complexity of a rapidly...
Raúl Zurita has long been recognized as one of the most important poetic voices in the Americas. His compelling rhythms combine epic and lyric tones, public and most intimate themes, grief and joy. This bilingual volume of selected works is the first of its kind in any language, representing the remarkable range of this extraordinary poet. Zurita's work confronts the cataclysm of the Pinochet coup with a powerful urgency matched by his remarkable craftsmanship and imaginative vision. In his attempt to address the atrocities that indelibly mark Chile
This new edition of Zapata’s Disciple, which won the 1999 Independent Publisher Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, opens with a new essay on this history of censorship and continues Espada’s lifelong fight for freedom of expression.
