Böcker av Ana Castillo

For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and fiery poetry and prose. Now the original Xicanista is back to her first literary love, poetry, and to interrogating the social and political upheaval the world has seen over the last decade. Angry and sad, playful and wise, Castillo delves into the bitter side of our world-the environmental crisis, COVID-19, ongoing systemic racism and violence, children in detention camps, and the Trump presidency-and emerges stronger from exploring these troubling affairs of today. Drawings by Castillo created over the past five years are featured throughout the collection and further showcase her connection to her work as both a writer and a visual artist. My Book of the Dead is a remarkable collection that features a poet at the height of her craft.

In this updated edition of Ana Castillo's celebrated novel in verse, featuring a new introduction by Poet Laureate of Texas, Carmen Tafolla, we revisit the story's spirited heroine, known only as ""Ella"" or ""She,"" as she takes us through her own epic journey of self-actualization as an artist and a woman.

Raised by immigrants and raising a brown son, Ana Castillo finds herself as a writer, feminist, and mother.

A forty-three-year-old Latina stumbles her way to spiritual self-rescue through sexual adventures and small-time hustles.

This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous. In history, myth, interviews, and ethnography Castillo revisits her reflections on Chicana activism, spiritual practices, sexual attitudes, artistic ideology, labor struggles, and education-related battles.

"Seductive ... full of infectious vigor ... these stories demand, above all, to be listened to."-New York Times Book Review