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In Cipota under the Moon, Claudia Castro Luna scores a series of poems as an ode to the Salvadoran immigrant experience in the United States. The poems are wrought with memories of the 1980s civil war and rich with observations from recent returns to her native country. Castro Luna draws a parallel between the ruthlessness of the war and the violence endured by communities of color in US cities; she shows how children are often the silent, unseen victims of state sanctioned and urban violence. In lush prose poems, musical tankas, and free verse, Castro Luna affirms that the desire for light and life outweighs the darkness of poverty, violence, and war. Cipota under the Moon is a testament to the men, women, and children who bet on life at all costs and now make their home in another language, in another place, which they, by their presence, change every day.

Seeking the most powerful healing practices to address the invisible wounds of war, Dr Ed Tick has led journeys to Vietnam for veterans, survivors, activists, and pilgrims for the past twenty years. This moving and revelatory collection documents the people, places, and experiences on these journeys.

An anthology of poems from one of California's high-security prisons brought to us through the creative writing classes of Luis J. Rodriguez, sponsored by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. These are poems, essays, stories, and more mined from the depths of familial, racial, and economic violence.

Louie Pérez is a musician and visual artist who has spent the last forty years as founding member and principal songwriter for the internationally acclaimed group Los Lobos. Working with David Hidalgo, Pérez has written more than four hundred songs. Many of these, along with poems and short stories as well as paintings, sketches, and photos, are collected in this personal, yet universally appealing volume.

As a child of Puerto Rican migrants on Chicago's Southside, Mayda's Del Valle's poetry utilizes part Spanish and English, part hip-hop and salsa, part Nas and Sonia Sanchez, part Shakespeare and John Leguizamo. It is inherited history as well as traditions remixed and invented. The beauty of this collection is that the poet manages to curate the flow such that the reader can DJ the poems.

Over twenty-five years ago two Americans, Dr. Diana Frade and her husband, Episcopalian Bishop Leo Frade, founded Our Little Roses Home for Girls in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. This book has essays by Spencer Reece and Luis J. Rodriguez as a backdrop to the girls' voices, and a foreword and afterword by poets Marie Howe and Richard Blanco.

Presents an anthology of Central American writers living in the United States. This volume features work that captures the complexity of a rapidly growing community that shares certain experiences with other Latino groups, but also offers its own unique narrative.

This is a journey into and through womanhood-from preadolescence through menopause-and an exploration of women's relations with one another. In 4-Headed Woman, Adisa bravely explores and uncovers taboos about womanhood in a controlled and at times lyrical style laced with humour.

Prison writing has a long and illustrious history in the United States - home of the modern correctional system. From poems, to stories, to novel excerpts, to reportage, to personal essays - and a few drawings - this title depicts what can happen to people who are given, 'a chance to live'.

A young man witnessed his father's murder in a power play that unintentionally enabled the Aztecs to establish an empire. The young man, Nezahualcoyotl, became the philosopher king of Texcoco and wrote the most famous poem of pre-conquest Americas, ""Song of Flight."" This work is a long poem and, echoing Dante, it also narrates a trip to hell.

Contains poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliche, signifying in an age of raging information and vicious exploitation. The author tackles issues like racism and sexism, but with a poet's eye to details, moments, miracles, pains, and the wildness of the moon and stillness of water.

Tracking a nonlinear trek across terrain as distinct as Timbuktu and Baton Rouge, and beliefs as "contrary" as Christianity and Communism, in The Armageddon of Funk Michael Warr manages to interconnect a world of opposites.

José Antonio Rodríguez's poetry is one of memory, both private and public. It is grounded in storytelling and lyricism that reveal a speaker's developing awareness as he traverses borders of nation, language, class, and sexuality. The poems move back and forth between a home left behind on the south side of the Rio Grande and a new home on the north side. Both awe-struck by and apprehensive of the world around him, the speaker searches for a way to claim a new space, a place of belonging. Through these poems, both lyrical and narrative, tender and tense, familiar and estranging, the poet invites us to examine the very concept of home--how we define it, what constitutes it, the ways it can be destabilized and how, in the most trying times, we must learn to sustain the hope of it in our hearts.