Chronicle of My Worst Years |
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| Author:
| Villanueva, Tino |
| Translator:
| Hoggard, James |
| Afterword by:
| Hoggard, James |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-5034-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1994 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Imprint: | TriQuarterly Books |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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As a Chicano writer working in Spanish, Tino Villanueva explores experience in the tongue that was the first European language spoken in and around his Texas homeland. Villanueva voices complex and compelling historical, literary, and cultural questions as impassioned personal utterances, investing this collection with intimacy and seriousness. His eloquent, elegant work portrays American realities absent from mainstream poetry.
As a Chicano writer working in Spanish, Tino Villanueva explores experience in the tongue that was the first European language spoken in and around his Texas homeland. Villanueva voices complex and compelling historical, literary, and cultural questions as impassioned personal utterances, investing this collection with intimacy and seriousness. His eloquent, elegant work portrays American realities absent from mainstream poetry.