Emplumada

Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes's first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience.

Author: Lorna Dee Cervantes
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 12/31/1981
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.50w x 0.24d
ISBN13: 9780822953272
ISBN10: 0822953277
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
Lorna Dee Cervantes is the author of From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Loveand Hunger and Emplumada, which won an American Book Award. She is also co-editor of Red Dirt, a cross-cultural poetry journal, and her work has been included in many anthologies including Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Women Poets, and After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties. In 1995 she received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award.