Contents
Critical Essays
Latino Poetry: Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition
Alurista: Toward a Chicano Poetics
The Twenty-First-Century Queer Chicano Poetics of Eduardo C. Corral
The Double Doors into J. Michael Martinez’s Heredities
Hayden’s Mexico
The Blatino Poetics of Aracelis Girmay
insert [gay black] boy
Queer Immigrant World, Queer Immigrant Word
Mexica Warrior: The Amerindian Vision of Natalie Diaz
Critical Reviews
Publishers on a Mission: Three Excellent Debut Poets
Powerful Debuts by Three African American Poets
On Karankawa and The Animal Too Big to Kill
Midcareer: Three Poets and Their Four Books
Twelve Essential Latino Poetry Books
Juan Felipe Herrera’s Global Voice and Vision
Critical Grace Notes
The Activist Role of the Writer
The Writer’s Journey: A Motivation
Poetry Brings out the Mexican in Me
Unpeopled Edens
Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement Speech
Erotic Light, Amor Oscuro: On the Queer Poetics of Francisco X. Alarcón and His Muse, Federico García Lorca