My Father Was a Toltec: And Selected Poems : 1973 1988

Castillo, Ana

ISBN 10: 0393037185 / ISBN 13: 9780393037180

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, NY, 1995

About this Item

158 pp. Nearly new, tight, clean, slight wear on jacket. Collection of Castillo poems with an autobiographical introduction that relates her childhood in Chicago's inner city and her struggles to write poetry. Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In Tall. Seller Inventory # 009688

Bibliographic Details

Title: My Father Was a Toltec: And Selected Poems :...

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, NY

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Cloth

Book Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition Stated.

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Synopsis:

Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of passion and uncompromising commitment. This collection brings back into print the best of her early work, including selected poems from The Invitation and Women Are Not Roses and the entire text of her landmark 1988 collection, My Father Was a Toltec. Whether invoking her origins as the daughter of a street warrior, a member of the Toltec gang in Chicago, or defining her own lyrical positions on a variety of social, political, sexual, and esthetic issues, Ana Castillo's poetic voice is unmistakably her own - and will be immediately recognizable to the lovers of her fiction.

From the Inside Flap:

Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment and passion. My Father Was a Toltec" is the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and secured Castillo's place in the popular canon. It is included here in its entirety along with the best of her early poems.
Ana Castillo's poetry speaks--in English and Spanish--to every reader who has felt the pangs of exile, the uninterrupted joy of love, and the deep despair of love lost.