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Bocaditos (Wings Press, San Antonio, 2009) January 27, 2009 – Posted in: Books

Bocaditos: Flash Fictions is Ana Castillo’s first chapbook in many years. Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies, this 40-page chapbook is printed on non-acidic, 80% post-consumer waste recycled paper, with a hand-sewn spine. A die-cut window in the cover reveals a self portrait painted by Ana Castillo.  (Oil, mixed media on canvas.) As Ana writes in her Preface: “These are independent stories or excerpts from much longer ones that developed from my solitary life and…

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Loverboys (Stories, W.W. Norton & Co.; NY, paperback, 2008) March 8, 2008 – Posted in: Books

“Seductive … full of infectious vigor … these stories demand, above all, to be listened to.”―New York Times Book Review From Ana Castillo, the widely praised author of So Far from God and The Guardians, comes this collection of stories on the experience of love in all its myriad configurations. Infectiously moody and murderously comic, Castillo chronicles the rapturous beginnings, melancholy middles, and bittersweet endings of modern romance between men and women, men and men,…

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The Guardians (Novel 2007) January 24, 2007 – Posted in: Books

From American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving new novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo’s father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over from Mexico, Regina fears the worst. After several…

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Psst, I Have Something to Tell You, Mi Amor (Wings Press; San Antonio, plays, 2005) January 27, 2005 – Posted in: Books

Teatro Vista Award winner Castillo turns her eye on the stage in this slender volume.  Based on the author’s poem, “Like the People of Guatemala, I Want to be Free of These Memories,” (I ASK THE IMPOSSIBLE). Comprised of both a one-act and a two-act play, this powerful dramatic pairing centers on Sister Dianna Ortiz, who was kidnapped, raped, and tortured by U.S.-sponsored Guatemalan security forces in 1989. “Ana Castillo might be one of this…

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I Ask the Impossible (Anchor Books; NY, 2001) March 8, 2001 – Posted in: Books

Cherished for her passionate fiction and exuberant essays, the author hailed by Barbara Kingsolver in the L.A. Times as “Impossible to Resist,” returns to her first love, Poetry, to reveal an unwavering commitment to social justice, and a fervent embrace of the sensual world. With the poems in I Ask the Impossible, Castillo celebrates the strength that “is a woman?buried deep in [her] heart.” Whether memorializing real-life heroines who have risked their lives for humanity,…

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My Daughter, my Son, the Eagle, the Dove (Y/A Chants, 2000) January 23, 2000 – Posted in: Books

My Daughter, My Son, The Eagle, The Dove by Ana Castillo, Susan Guevara Both a blessing to a child and a tribute to parenthood, this superb keepsake book by renowned Chicana poet and author Ana Castillo was inspired by ancient Aztec chants. It’s the ideal gift to commemorate any of various momentous events in an older child’s life–such as graduation, an important birthday, a quincea-era, or a family occasion. In words and pictures, the book’s…

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Peel my Love Like an Onion (Novel, 1999) January 24, 1999 – Posted in: Books

(Carmen la Coja, Spanish edition) Peel My Love Like an Onion is the breakthrough novel from Ana Castillo, author of the wildly praised So Far from God–a lyrical, steamy, and moving story of a love triangle set in the colorful world of flamenco dancing. Carmen “La Coja” (“the cripple”) Santos is a flamenco dancer of local renown in Chicago, despite the obstacle of a handicapped leg, the legacy of a childhood attack of polio. From…

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Goddess of the Americas / Diosa de las Américas, Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe (Editor, 1997) January 24, 1997 – Posted in: Books

Goddess of the Americas is a brilliant essay collection and an impassioned, unorthodox celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe: mother goddess, patron saint of Mexico, protector of the downtrodden, who made her first appearance on American soil in 1531. Through a variety of forms — original essays, historical writings, short fiction, drama, and poetry — the illustrious contributors to this literary anthology examine the impact this potent deity, the Lady of Guadalupe, has had on…

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