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“barbara jane reyes”

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  • Letters to a Young Brown Girl

    by Barbara Jane Reyes ...
    Series series
    First printing: 2500 copies.Letters to a Young Brown Girl is Barbara Jane Reyes’s sixth full-length poetry collection. Her previous book, Invocation to Daughters, was published by City Lights Publishers in 2017 and received starred reviews in Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, among other reviews. Her previous BOA collection, Diwata, was published in 2010 and has continued to sell through ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Diwata

    by Barbara Jane Reyes ...
    Series series
    Tagalog is a language spoken by twenty-two million people in the Philippines. Diwata is a Tagalog term meaning "muse." Diwata is also a term for a mythical being who resides in nature, and who human communities must acknowledge, respect, and appease in order to live harmoniously in this world.In her book Diwata, Barbara Jane Reyes frames her poems between the Book of Genesis creation story and the ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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    by Sandra Cisneros ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. • From the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.“Not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review“All poets ... Read more

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  • My Father Was a Toltec

    and Selected Poems

    by Ana Castillo ...
    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 Toltecis the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and secured Castillo's place in the popular canon. It is ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Ethics, 2nd Edition

    Resolve the Ethical Dilemmas That Arise in Everyday Life

    by David Ingram, Jennifer A. Parks Ph.D. ...
    Ethics are more than a personal philosophyFrom the crimes of Bernie Madoff to the accusations of war crimes and torture to the massive greed-inspired fraud perpetrated by the financial institutions around the world, this new edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Understanding Ethics, Second Edition, helps clarify the history and evolution of ethics and their application to real life in the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Smoke

    by Dorianne Laux ...
    Dorianne Laux’s long-awaited third book of poetry follows her collection, What We Carry, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. In Smoke, Laux revisits familiar themes of family, working class lives and the pleasures of the body in poetry that is vital and artfully crafted-poetry that "gets hard in the face of aloofness," in the words of one reviewer. In Smoke, as ... Read more

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  • Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut

    by Vickie Vértiz ...
    Series series Camino del Sol
    Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut uses both humor and sincerity to capture moments in time with a sense of compassion for the hard choices we must make to survive. Vértiz’s poetry shows how history, oppression, and resistance don’t just refer to big events or movements; they play out in our everyday lives, in the intimate spaces of family, sex, and neighborhood. Vértiz’s poems ask us to see Los ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying

    by Laurie Ann Guerrero ...
    Series series Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
    Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday—a pot of beans, a goat carcass, embroidered linens, a grandfather’s cancer—A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying journeys through the inherited fear of creation and destruction. The histories of South Texas and its people unfold in Laurie Ann Guerrero’s stirring language, including the dehumanization of men and its consequences on women ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • With the River on Our Face

    by Emmy Pérez ...
    Series series Camino del Sol
    Emmy Pérez’s poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, communities, and ecology of the borderlands through lyric and narrative utterances, auditory and visual texture, chant, and litany that merge and diverge like the iconic river in this long-awaited ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Sin

    Studies in the Problems of Man’s Moral Life

    by Oswald Chambers ...
    The Philosophy of Sin is a subject of perennial interest, because the dreadful fact of sin is always with us. In every age there are the plain signs of some disruptive force at work among men. Hearts are being broken, lives are being spoiled, humanity is overclouded. Our Christian Faith sees that the underlying cause is Man’s sin—his fundamental dislocation from God, with all its bitter ... Read more

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  • My Wicked Wicked Ways

    by Sandra Cisneros ...
    In this beautiful collection of poems, remarkable for their plainspoken radiance, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literatureembraces her first passion-verse.With lines both comic and sad, Sandra Cisneros deftly-and dazzlingly-explores the human experience. For those familiar with Cisneros only from her ... Read more

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  • Twelve Clocks

    by Julie Sophia Paegle ...
    Series series Camino del Sol
    From the fall of Troy recorded at the beginning of Western poetry to the ongoing mass extinction of species, Twelve Clocks meditates on the temporality of loss across the many scales of our experience and knowledge. Framed by central images of beginnings and ends, this collection searches six cities and intervals of time for the measures of loss, labor, and care. Through formal innovations derived ... Read more

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