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Sarah Cortez
Poetry. It’s not every book of poetry that includes an Ode to Body Armor. But then, it’s not every poet whose experience in academia includes a stint at the police…
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This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil of Texas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers’ nets of the Gulf Coast, near Matagorda. Three generations of Hispanic families are…
Contains fifty lyric poems set in the world of the urban street cop in Houston, the USs fourth largest metropolis. In the patrol car, at scenes of suicides and DOAs…
This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honour, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the…
Along Texas roadways rest thousands of contemplative shrines, usually marked by small, white metal crosses. Anchored by the stunning photography of roadside memorials by Dan Streck, this landmark book allows…
The poems of Sarah Cortez flex lean muscles to build lyric intensity and a gripping edginess often backlit by an incandescent, controlled eroticism. Cortez reveals the hidden underworld of her…
Over twenty years ago, Sarah Cortez left a flourishing corporate career to strap on a gun, and police the streets. Transitioning to a low-bid, agency-owned Crown Vic wasn’t easy, but…
An anthology of suspenseful short fiction by Latino authors for teenagers.
The sharpest, most stylized and ambitious anthology of Native American literature ever published.
Angelique Jamail
In this collection of poems, the characters swerve between the rain-drenched, tree-lined, concrete plains of Houston and the voluptuous, dynamic terrain of Los Angeles. They face multiple realities, and though…
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The fourth-largest city in the US is long overdue to enter the Noir Series arena, and does so blazingly.
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