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Prose and Poetry
The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans
With a fresh sense of humor and a profound understanding, The Holy
Tortilla and a Pot of Beans, a feast of short fiction by Carmen Tafolla,
explores the human spirit inherent in the bilingual, bicultural world of
the Texas-Mexico border. These sixteen stories skillfully bridge the gap
between miracles and tragedies, prejudice and transcendence, and oppression
and liberation. From the comical exploration of the hypocrisy expressed
at funerals to the spiritual mission of a magical tortilla, the collection
draws upon a wide range of emotions but comes together in a singular, powerful
voice that reflects the holiness found in everyday life.
These stories are
wonderful… Carmen Tafolla is full of pep, full of love and experience.
The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans is just plain delightful…
Read it and laugh; read it and weep; read it and feel so much better than
you did before you opened to page one and got sucked right into the magic
by Chencho’s cow. ¡Qué obra más maravillosa!
— John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War, The
Empanada Brotherhood, et al.
To read an excerpt
from the story Invisible, click here
To read an excerpt from the story The Holy Tortilla, click
here
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Sonnets and Salsa
Sonnets and Salsa is the latest collection of Tafolla’s
poetry, combining the now classic Sonnets to Human Beings manuscript
with a bit of salsa picante, including “The Storykeeper”
and “La Pasionaria.”
To read an excerpt,
click here
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Sonnets to Human Beings
The first edition of Sonnets to Human Beings and Other Selected Works
made history as the first critical edition of a work by a Chicana writer.
This master collection contains Tafolla’s award-winning manuscript,
Sonnets to Human Beings, plus a selection of Tafolla’s best-loved
poems and stories, an autobiography and a range of critical and interpretive
essays. Here in Tafolla’s poems and stories is the "“Blab
of the Pave"” that Whitman celebrated in Leaves of Grass.
Also translated into German, Sonnets to Human Beings sold out
in Germany as part of the Osnabruck Editions of Minority Authors.
To read an excerpt,
click here
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Tafolla’s first book of poetry, Get Your Tortillas Together,
co-authored with Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo and Reyes Cardenas in 1976, is
considered a collector’s item.
Curandera (M&A, Lalo Press) and La Isabela de Guadalupe
y Otras Chucas (in Five Poets of Aztlán) followed, establishing
Tafolla as an early master at code-switching and a bilingual esthetic.
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The Holy Tortilla
BOOK REVIEW
Sonnets and
Salsa
Sonnets to Human
Beings
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