Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes

Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes

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Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes

Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes’s first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience.
Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954. She is the author of From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger and Emplumada (1981), which won an American Book Award. She is also co-editor of Red Dirt, a cross-cultural poetry journal, and her work has b
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ISBN 13 9780822953272
ISBN 10 0822953277
Title Emplumada
Author Lorna Dee Cervantes
Series Pitt Poetry Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
Year published 1981-12-31
Number of pages 80
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.