LibGuides: Highlighting Diverse Collections Archive: Hispanic Heritage Month

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The Carrying by Ada Limon
ISBN: 9781571315120
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
From (the first Latina) US Poet Laureate, Ada Limon, comes a collection of poetry that won the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award. “Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance.”
Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral
ISBN: 9780300178920
Publication Date: 2012-04-03
The first Latino Yale Series of Younger Poets award winner, Eduardo C Corral seamlessly braids English and Spanish and hurtles across literary and linguistic borders toward a lyricism that slows down experience. He employs a range of forms and phrasing, bringing the vivid particulars of his experiences as a Chicano and gay man to the page.
Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros
ISBN: 0679416447
Publication Date: 1994-04-26
Sandra Cisneros is the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic.
Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera
ISBN: 9780872868281
Publication Date: 2020-09-22
In this collection of poems, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America with the multiple powers of the many voices and many textures of every day in America.
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
ISBN: 9781644450147
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Written by the first Latina to win a Pulitzer Prize in poetry, Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness.
Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
ISBN: 9781556595110
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Calling into question the concept of the American Dream, Javier Zamora reimagines home, fusing music and memory to address the quandaries that tear families apart and—if we’re lucky—inspire the building of lives anew in this debut poetry collection.
The Woman I Kept to Myself by Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 1565124065
Publication Date: 2004-01-04
The works of award-winning poet and novelist Julia Alvarez are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life.

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Highlighting Diverse Collections: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023. Hispanic Heritage Month is observed September 15 through October 15 and celebrates Hispanic Americans’ contributions to our nation and society. Before this observation comes to a close, let’s look at some poets who have enriched America with collections accessible at UT Libraries.

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