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Ana Castillo
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born
June 15, 1953
gender
female
place of birth
Chicago, The United States
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genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry
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avg rating: 3.89
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| 195 reviews
| 17 distinct works
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So Far from God: A Novel by Ana Castillo avg rating 3.90 — 474 ratings — published 1993 10 editions |
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Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel by Ana Castillo avg rating 3.80 — 248 ratings — published 1999 5 editions |
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The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo avg rating 3.93 — 191 ratings — published 1992 3 editions |
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Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma by Ana Castillo avg rating 3.95 — 97 ratings — published 1994 2 editions |
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The Guardians: A Novel by Ana Castillo avg rating 3.73 — 98 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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Loverboys: Stories by Ana Castillo avg rating 3.69 — 80 ratings — published 1996 3 editions |
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My Father Was a Toltec: And Selected Poems 1973-1988 by Ana Castillo avg rating 3.88 — 50 ratings — published 1988 4 editions |
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Goddess of the Americas by Ana Castillo avg rating 4.47 — 40 ratings — published 1996 2 editions |
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Sapogonia by Ana Castillo avg rating 3.62 — 42 ratings — published 1990 3 editions |
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I Ask the Impossible: Poems by Ana Castillo avg rating 4.17 — 36 ratings — published 2001 |
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"I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.
When the world in its entirety,
and all that you hold sacred advise you
against it: love me still more.
When rage fills you and has no name: love me.
When each step from your door to our job tires you--
love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.
Love me when you're bored--
when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,
or more pathetic, love me as you always have:
not as admirer or judge, but with
the compassion you save for yourself
in your solitude.
Love me as you relish your loneliness,
the anticipation of your death,
mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.
Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--
and if there is none to recall--
imagine one, place me there with you.
Love me withered as you loved me new.
Love me as if I were forever--
and I, will make the impossible
a simple act,
by loving you, loving you as I do
"
— Ana Castillo (I Ask the Impossible: Poems)
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.
When the world in its entirety,
and all that you hold sacred advise you
against it: love me still more.
When rage fills you and has no name: love me.
When each step from your door to our job tires you--
love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.
Love me when you're bored--
when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,
or more pathetic, love me as you always have:
not as admirer or judge, but with
the compassion you save for yourself
in your solitude.
Love me as you relish your loneliness,
the anticipation of your death,
mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.
Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--
and if there is none to recall--
imagine one, place me there with you.
Love me withered as you loved me new.
Love me as if I were forever--
and I, will make the impossible
a simple act,
by loving you, loving you as I do
"
— Ana Castillo (I Ask the Impossible: Poems)
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"Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you. "
— Ana Castillo (Loverboys: Stories)
— Ana Castillo (Loverboys: Stories)
"There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment."
— Ana Castillo (Loverboys: Stories)
— Ana Castillo (Loverboys: Stories)
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