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  <title><![CDATA[Gary Soto: New and Selected Poems]]></title>
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  <default_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. &lt;I&gt;New and Selected Poems&lt;/I&gt; includes the best of his seven full-length collections, plus over 23 new poems previously unpublished in book form.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, &lt;I&gt;New and Selected Poems&lt;/I&gt; is a timely tribute to a brilliant writer whose work confirms the power of the human spirit to survive and soar.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Appropriate 6-8, Soto reflects the universality of the human condition as mirrored through his experiences in and strong ties to the Mexican-American community in California. Whether he is reliving a trip to the cemetery, a shopping excursion to the local market, or the nostalgia days of black-and-w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78393156">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Soto's sparse but lyrical verses, his wonderful way of weaving the personal with the political to create deceptively simple poems that speak volumes about the Mexican-American experience that, ultimately, is the American experience.  I go back to this book time and time again.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The repetition in the excerpted books was a pretty interesting feature, creating an emphasis on the concrete nature on the Southwest.  There are about a dozen really memorable poems, including &quot;Eve&quot; and a few from &quot;Black Hair.&quot;  The books get better as they go on, forming a more ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3707360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of poems gave me a greater appreciation for male narrative.  These are coming-of-age stories, very poignant and deceptively simple.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stunningly beautiful and beautifully simple. Soto spreads his life before you in this collection. His memory and his metaphors yield a life of poems both bare and harsh, yet fantastical and romantic. I hope that doesn't like an ordinary back-of-book review, but if you read this collection, you'll un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3609667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an amazing collection of Soto's poetry: funny, poignant, and serious in dealing with multiculturalism.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was an okay book. i liked that it had poems. i think 13 year old would enjoy this book]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many poems with similar themes. I should not have read the entire book as I did.]]></body>
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