Desire

by Alma Luz Villanueva, Gary D. Keller (Editor)

Poetry. Villanueva's poems fuse the personal and the political, anchoring the abstract in the sensual world and revealing a belief in the power of language to connect us to the world, to each other, and to ourselves. "We are all witness to our human history," (from "Witness"), and Villanueva's witnessing takes the form of honest poems that employ a clarity of perception to inspire their readers. Villanueva won the Latino Literature Prize in 1994 for her book PLANET, and has written four other volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, and two prize-winning novels.

Genres: Poetry

171 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

About the author

Alma Luz Villanueva (born 4 October 1944 Lompoc, California) is a Mexican-American poet, short story writer, and novelist.

Her Mexican grandfather edited a newspaper in Hermosillo, Mexico, and was a published poet. Her maternal grandmother, a Yaqui Indian curandera/healer (as was her mother) from Sonora, raised her in the Mission District of San Francisco.

She taught at University of California Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College, Naropa Institute, Mesa College, University of California San Diego, Stanford University, Pacific University. She teaches at Antioch University Los Angeles in the MFA in Creative Writing Program, for the past fourteen years as of 2012. She lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

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