The Cha Cha Files:: A Chapina Poética [INSCRIBED]

Chinchilla, Maya; Ana Patricia Rodriguez (fwd.)

ISBN 10: 0988967383 / ISBN 13: 9780988967380

Published by Korima Press, San Francisco, CA, 2014

About this Item

INSCRIBED. Stiff color illus. wraps. Three leaves with top corner dog-ear crease, otherwise as new/as issued. 1st ed. xxi,95,ci-cv pp. Inscribed by author on half-title, with "Enjoy!" salutation, not personalized. Gift inscription unrelated to author on verso of half-title. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cha Cha Files:: A Chapina Poética [INSCRIBED]
• Publisher: Korima Press, San Francisco, CA
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0988967383
• ISBN 13: 9780988967380
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética by Maya Chinchilla is a timely debut that makes visible the Central American-Guatemalan diaspora and disentangles the myths from the mayhem of civil wars, urban wars, and the wars raging in young hearts. Part memory, part imaginary, The Cha Cha Files honors Central American feministas, Long Beach roqueras, families divided by war, lovers separated by borders, and celebrates the pleasure and heartbreak of femmes, machas, y mariconadas. These poems, stories, and snapshots traverse California coastlines and southern borderlines, cut across tense multi-culti high-school hallways, sing Solidarity Movement songs, mosh through tribal slam pits, and find home in the vibrant Bay Area where radical activists and lovers alike come of age. Chinchilla’s hopeful and uniquely Chapina voice emerges as a significant contribution to U.S. Latina/o literary works.

About the Author

Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan, Bay Area-based writer, video artist, and educator with an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College. She writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory, heartbreak, tenderness, sexuality, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy, witty, performative, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. Born and raised in Long Beach, CA, by a mixed class, mixed race, immigrant activist extended family, Maya has lived and loved in the Bay Area for the second half of her life. Her work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz, Sinister Wisdom, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies, Cipactli Journal, and The Lunada Literary Anthology, and is quoted (and misquoted) in essays, presentations and books on U.S.-Central American poetics; Chicana/Latina literature; and identity, gender, and sexuality. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco, CA, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, CA, and is a VONA Voices and Dos Brujas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University.