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This River Here
Tafolla, Carmen, Ph.d.
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Description for This River Here
Paperback. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 178 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometown—the city of her ancestors for the past three centuries—in poems that celebrate its history as a cosmopolitan multilingual cultural crossroads. Discover San Antonio's corazón in Tafolla's poetry, accompanied by historic and contemporary photographs that convey its enduring sense of place.
A century ago, San Antonio gave Oscar Wilde ""a thrill of strange pleasure."" J. Frank Dobie claimed that ""every Texan has two hometowns—his own and San Antonio,"" and Will Rogers declared it to be ""one of the three unique cities of America."" To Larry McMurtry, ""San Antonio has kept an ... Read more
San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometown—the city of her ancestors for the past three centuries—in poems that celebrate its history as a cosmopolitan multilingual cultural crossroads. Discover San Antonio's corazón in Tafolla's poetry, accompanied by historic and contemporary photographs that convey its enduring sense of place.
A century ago, San Antonio gave Oscar Wilde ""a thrill of strange pleasure."" J. Frank Dobie claimed that ""every Texan has two hometowns—his own and San Antonio,"" and Will Rogers declared it to be ""one of the three unique cities of America."" To Larry McMurtry, ""San Antonio has kept an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wings Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
San Antonio, TX, United States
ISBN
9781609403997
SKU
V9781609403997
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99-50
About Tafolla, Carmen, Ph.d.
Carmen Tafolla is a professor and a writer in residence for Children's, Youth & Transformative Literature at the University of Texas-San Antonio, USA. She is the author of more than 20 books, including Curandera, The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans, Rebozos, Sonnets and Salsa, and Tamales, Comadres, and the Meaning of Civilization, and the recipient of numerous literary ... Read more
Reviews for This River Here
Tafolla is a pioneer of Chicana literature." —Ana Castillo, author, So Far From God "A world-class writer." —Alex Haley, author, Roots "In Tafolla's poetry, the disenfranchised speak for themselves in their own language." —Yolanda Broyles-González, author, Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music