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This River Here: Poems of San Antonio
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Artikel-Nr:
9781609403997
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.2014
Seiten:
104
Autor:
Carmen Tafolla
Gewicht:
249 g
Format:
211x175x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Carmen Tafolla is a professor and a writer in residence for Children's, Youth & Transformative Literature at the University of Texas-San Antonio, USA. She is the author of more than 20 books, including Curandera, The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans, Rebozos, Sonnets and Salsa, and Tamales, Comadres, and the Meaning of Civilization, and the recipient of numerous literary honours, including the Americas Award, the Art of Peace Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Award, two Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Book Awards, and two International Latino Book Awards. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and was named the first poet laureate of San Antonio. She lives in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometown—the city of her ancestors for the past three centuries—in poems that celebrate its history as a cosmopolitan multilingual cultural crossroads. Discover San Antonio's corazón in Tafolla's poetry, accompanied by historic and contemporary photographs that convey its enduring sense of place.