Lucha Corpi, Author Arte Publico Press $9.5 (224p) ISBN 978-0-934770-82-8
Even the most sympathetic reader will squirm at this earnest but very poorly written first novel whose eponymous heroine leaves her Mexican-American family in 1968 to enroll as a freshman at Berkeley. Delia becomes politicized, romantically involved
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Lucha Corpi, Author Arte Publico Press $18.95 (249p) ISBN 978-1-55885-134-4
This second mystery from Corpi features Chicana detective Gloria Damasco, introduced in Eulogy for a Brown Angel, in a mildly suspenseful plot. Upon learning that Sonny Mares, an old friend and fellow activist in the United Farmworkers Strike and...
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Lucha Corpi, Author Arte Publico Press $9 (200p) ISBN 978-1-55885-050-7
A haze of dazzlingly evocative prose very nearly hides this first mystery's slack plotting. Corpi's ear for Latino rhythms and her feminist leanings produce some original and highly charged narrative moments. But plot still matters. In 1970, a three-
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Lucha Corpi, Author, Catherine Rodriguez Nieto, Translator, Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, Introduction by Arte Publico Press $12.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-55885-322-5
It is certainly high noon for Corpi, an award-winning author of numerous books of poetry and fiction and one of the first Mexican American writers to gain recognition in this country. But this collection, published in Spanish in 1980 and only now
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