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 passion and uncompromising commitment. This collection brings back into print the best of her early work, including selected poems from The Invitation and Women Are Not Roses and the entire text of her landmark 1988 collection, My Father Was a Toltec. Whether invoking her origins as the daughter of a street warrior, a member of the Toltec gang in Chicago, or defining her own lyrical positions on a variety of social, political, sexual, and esthetic issues, Ana Castillo's poetic voice is unmistakably her own - and will be immediately recognizable to the lovers of her fiction.
- ISBN10 0393313549
- ISBN13 9780393313543
- Publish Date 17 March 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 September 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 100
- Language English