num_pages: 192
description: For over two decades, the award-winning poet and author Gary Soto has been offering his readers a vision that transcends the ordinary, making him one of today's most celebrated Chicano writers. New and Selected Poems includes the best of his seven full-length collections, plus over 23 new poems previously unpublished in book form. From the charged, short-lined poems of Soto's early writing to an unflinching look at poverty and hard labor in California's Central Valley to the off-beat humor in his longer, more recent work, New and Selected Poems is a timely tribute to a brilliant writer whose work confirms the power of the human spirit to survive and soar.
language: English
title: New and Selected Poems
titlecomplete: New and Selected Poems
genres: American, Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 167
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: Chronicle Books