I Used to Be a Superwoman - Softcover

Velasquez, Gloria

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9781558851917: I Used to Be a Superwoman

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ISBN 10: 1558851917 ISBN 13: 9781558851917

Publisher: Arte Publico Press, 1997

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The Chicano Movement is not dead. It lives on, fierce and passionate, in the voice and person of Gloria Velasquez. Challenging our complacency, her resonant cries for justice "refuse to be silent/to be buried in obscurity."
Velasquez has known poverty and discrimination intimately and, like a phoenix from the ashes, she has risen to recognition as an artist, an educator and a leader. But, the poet is as uncompromising with herself as she is with her reader. Refusing to rest on her laurels, her ardent verses are a pledge reiterating her allegiance to la causa and a call to arms demanding that others perpetuate the struggle.

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About the Author:

Gloria Velasquez is currently a professor in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

Review:

Advice
America
Arturo
Black Birds
Black Shoes
Chicana
Children Of The Sun
Dalin
Days Gone By In Orange County
Dimanche
Educate
Farewell To Johnstown
Farewell To Juan
February
Frida And I
From Good Morning, Vietnam To Good Morning, Mom.
A Hindu Lover
If I Can Only Leave My Mark
Letter To A Patroncito
Memories
Metamorphosis At Stanford
My Lover
My Lover #2
My Solitude
Poverty
Realism
Self-portrait 1990
Self-portrait 1991
Superwoman
Tashunka Witco
Then All Of You, Let Me Die
These Days In January
Thou Art
Who Am I?
Wonderful Youth
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

The poet has known poverty and discrimination, and her poems reveal an allegiance to social and political change as they reveal a Chicana's efforts to come to terms with her heritage and her culture. Presented in an excellent bilingual edition, these free verse reflections will appeal to any interested in role models for change. -- Midwest Book Review

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