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My Father Was a Toltec

and Selected Poems

and Selected Poems

By Ana Castillo

By Ana Castillo

By Ana Castillo

By Ana Castillo

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Category: Poetry

Category: Poetry

Paperback $14.95

Apr 13, 2004 | ISBN 9781400034994

Ebook $8.99

Mar 12, 2009 | ISBN 9780307538727

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    About My Father Was a Toltec

    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 Toltec is the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and secured Castillo’s place in the popular canon. It is included here in its entirety along with the best of her early poems.

    Ana Castillo’s poetry speaks—in English and Spanish—to every reader who has felt the pangs of exile, the uninterrupted joy of love, and the deep despair of love lost.

    About My Father Was a Toltec

    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 Toltec is the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and secured Castillo’s place in the popular canon. It is included here in its entirety along with the best of her early poems.

    Ana Castillo’s poetry speaks—in English and Spanish—to every reader who has felt the pangs of exile, the uninterrupted joy of love, and the deep despair of love lost.

    Also by Ana Castillo

    The Guardians
    I Ask the Impossible
    Peel My Love Like an Onion
    Goddess of the Americas
    Loverboys
    See all books by Ana Castillo

    Also by Ana Castillo

    The Guardians
    I Ask the Impossible
    Peel My Love Like an Onion
    Goddess of the Americas
    Loverboys
    See all books by Ana Castillo

    About Ana Castillo

    Ana Castillo is the author of the novels The Guardians, Peel My Love Like an Onioin, So Far from God, The Mixquiahuala Letters, and Sapogonia. She has written a story collection, Loverboys; the crtitical study Massacre of the Dreamers; the… More about Ana Castillo

    About Ana Castillo

    Ana Castillo is the author of the novels The Guardians, Peel My Love Like an Onioin, So Far from God, The Mixquiahuala Letters, and Sapogonia. She has written a story collection, Loverboys; the crtitical study Massacre of the Dreamers; the… More about Ana Castillo

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by Anchor
    Apr 13, 2004 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400034994

    Category: Poetry

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Anchor
    Mar 12, 2009 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780307538727

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    “If you have read Ana Castillo’s work before, you will not be disappointed. If you have not read Castillo before—where have you been?” —Houston Chronicle

    “Ana Castillo is immensely insightful in every sense of the word. Her work…must be read if one is to gain understanding of the landscape of the soul.” —Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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