My father was a Toltec and selected poems, 1973-1988
By: Ana Castillo.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton; W.W. Norton
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Poetry; Gangs -- Poetry; Chicago (Ill.) -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Description: Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of passion and uncompromising commitment. This collection brings back into print the best of her early work, including selected poems from The Invitation and Women Are Not Roses and the entire text of her landmark 1988 collection, My Father Was a Toltec.

Whether invoking her origins as the daughter of a street warrior, a member of the Toltec gang in Chicago, or defining her own lyrical positions on a variety of social, political, sexual, and esthetic issues, Ana Castillo's poetic voice is unmistakably her own - and will be immediately recognizable to the lovers of her fiction.