I Used to Be a Superwoman

I Used to Be a Superwoman

  • Autor: Velásquez, Gloria
  • Editor: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558851917
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518501814
  • Lugar de publicación:  Houston , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación: 2017
  • Páginas: 128

The Chicano Movement is not dead. It lives on, fierce and passionate, in the voice and person of Gloria Velásquez. Challenging our complacency, her resonant cries for justice “refuse to be silent/to be buried in obscurity”.

Velásquez 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 laurel, her ardent verses are a pledge reiterating her allegiance to la causa and a call to arms demanding that others perpetuate the struggle.

A consummate oral performer and speaker, Velásquez has been uniquely successful in transferring onto the printed page the drama of reciting poetry on barrio streets. These pages burn with the fire of action and commitment.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Introduction by Margarita Luna Robles
  • Dedication
  • La pobreza
  • Poverty
  • Recuerdos
  • Memories
  • Bella juventud
  • Wonderful Youth
  • Gente del sol
  • Children of the Sun
  • Eres
  • Thou Art
  • Dalin
  • Dalin
  • ¿Quién soy?
  • Who Am I?
  • Chicana
  • Consejos
  • Advice
  • Superwoman
  • Superwoman
  • Un amante hindú
  • A Hindu Lover
  • Déjenrne morir
  • Then All of You, Let Me Die
  • If I Can Only Leave My Mark
  • If I Can Only Leave My Mark
  • Mi soledad
  • My Solitude
  • Febrero
  • February
  • Dimanche
  • Dimanche
  • Mi amante
  • My Lover
  • Despedida de Johnstown
  • Farewell to Johnstown
  • Metamorfosis en Stanford
  • Metamorphosis at Stanford
  • Realismo
  • Realism
  • Autorretrato 1990
  • Self-Portrait 1990
  • Frida y yo
  • Frida and I
  • Mi amante #2
  • My Lover #2
  • Estos días de enero
  • These Days in January
  • Black Birds
  • Black Birds
  • Arturo
  • Arturo
  • Tashunka witco
  • Tashunka witco
  • Zapatas negros
  • Black Shoes
  • De Good Morning, Vietnam a Good Morning, Mamá
  • From Good Morning, Vietnam to "Good Morning, Mom."
  • Carta a un patroncito
  • Letter to a Patroncito
  • Despedida de Juan
  • Farewell to Juan
  • Días ya pasados en Orange County
  • Days Gone by in Orange County
  • Autorretrato 1991
  • Self-Portrait 1991
  • Edúcate
  • América
  • About the Author
  • About the Illustration Artists

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