Between the Light / entre la claridad - Garza, Elisa A

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Résumé :
The carefully crafted poems in Between the Light / entra la claridad highlight the centrality of family and culture that shape the identities of Mexican Americans, providing them with solid root structures that can also entangle them in the hardships and stereotypes of previous generations. Garza's strong voiced poems push against the outmoded ideas, behaviors, and thoughts that family, culture, and society try to wrap around her, forging her own path / into the soft ground. This dynamic collection navigates temporal, emotional, linguistic and spiritual borders, borders that we must not ignore in a time when the geographical border demands all our attention, as we seek a space and time when your ears / don't notice when the tongue speaking to you / slides over, fl?ido and dances where it wishes, map or no....

Biographie:
Elisa A. Garza is a native Texan who often writes the stories of her extended family, particularly the women of her family. Her writing revisions the people, land- scapes, and language of past and present South Tex- as, where her family has lived for hundreds of years. Her first chapbook, Familia, won the 2001 Portlandia Group chapbook competition and was a bestseller for the press. You will find Elisa's poems in many journals and anthologies, most recently in Texas Poetry Assignment (texaspoetryassignment.org). She has received a Literature Fellowship from the Texas Commission on the Arts and the Emerging Writer Award from the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. She has taught writing, literature, and ethnic studies to students from elementary through senior citizens in public schools, universities, and community programs. Currently, she works as a freelance reader, editor, and proofreader for publishing houses and individual writers. For information about future publications and appearances, visit the Poetry by Elisa A. Garza Facebook page....

Sommaire:
The carefully crafted poems in Between the Light / entra la claridad highlight the centrality of family and culture that shape the identities of Mexican Americans, providing them with solid root structures that can also entangle them in the hardships and stereotypes of previous generations. Garza's strong voiced poems push against the outmoded ideas, behaviors, and thoughts that family, culture, and society try to wrap around her, forging her own path / into the soft ground. This dynamic collection navigates temporal, emotional, linguistic and spiritual borders, borders that we must not ignore in a time when the geographical border demands all our attention, as we seek a space and time when your ears / don't notice when the tongue speaking to you / slides over, fl?ido and dances where it wishes, map or no....