| When Living Was a Labor Camp Contributor(s): García, Diana (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816520437 ISBN-13: 9780816520435 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2000 Annotation: "I write what I eat and smell", says Diana Garcia, and her words are a bountiful harvest. Her poems color the page with the vibrancy and sweetness of figs, the freshness of tortillas, and the sensuality of language. In this, Garcia's first collection of poems, she takes a bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there. Writing from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, she catapults the reader into the lives of the campesinos with their daily joys and sorrows. Bold, political, and familial, Garcia's poems gift the reader with a sense of earth, struggle, and pride -- each line filled with the sounds of agrarian music, from mariachi melodies to repatriation revolts. Embodied with such spirit, her poems rise with the convictions of power and equality. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 99050792 |
| Series: Camino del Sol: A Latina and Latino Literary (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.04" W x 9.01" (0.42 lbs) 105 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I write what I eat and smell, says Diana Garc a, and her words are a bountiful harvest. Her poems color the page with the vibrancy and sweetness of figs, the freshness of tortillas, and the sensuality of language. In this, Garc a's first collection of poems, she takes a bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there. Writing from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, she catapults the reader into the lives of the campesinos with their daily joys and sorrows. Bold, political, and familial, Garc a's poems gift the reader with a sense of earth, struggle, and pride--each line filled with the sounds of agrarian music, from mariachi melodies to repatriation revolts. Embodied with such spirit, her poems rise with the convictions of power and equality |