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Villanueva, Chronicle of my Worst Years / Cronica de mis Anos Peores.

Villanueva, Tino / Hoggard, James (translator).

Chronicle of my Worst Years / Cronica de mis Anos Peores.

Bilingual Edition. Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1994. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 84 pages. Original softcover. Fine. Signed by the author.

Includes for example the following poems: History Class / Beginning to Know / An Almost Biblical City: Chicago / My Narrow Frame of Time / The Venturesomeness of Sedition / We’re Substance Now and Time etc.

″As a Chicano writer working in Spanish, Tino Villanueva explores experience in the tongue that was the first European language spoken in and around his Texas homeland. Villanueva voices complex and compelling historical, literary, and cultural questions as impassioned personal utterances, investing this collection with intimacy and seriousness. His eloquent, elegant work portrays American realities absent from mainstream poetry.”(Amazon)

″Poet and painter Tino Villanueva was born in San Marcos, Texas to a family of migrant workers. He was drafted into the army and served for two years as a supply clerk in the Panama Canal Zone before earning a BA at Southwest Texas State University, an MA at State University of New York at Buffalo, and a PhD at Boston University.

Writing in both Spanish and English, at times sliding back and forth between the two languages, Villanueva writes poems exploring themes of memory, longing, and history. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Hay Otra Voz: Poems (1972); Scene from the Movie GIANT (1993), which won an American Book Award; and So Spoke Penelope (2013). He translated Luis J. Rodríguez’s La Llaman América (1998), and his own poems have been translated into Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Greek, and Korean.

The founder of Imagine Publishers, Inc., Villanueva has edited Imagine: International Chicano Poetry Journal and the anthology Chicanos: Antología Histórica y Literaria (1980).Villanueva received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Texas State University-San Marcos. He has taught at Wellesley College and Boston University. A selection of his papers is held at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. He lives in Boston. ″ (Poetry Foundation)

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Villanueva, Chronicle of my Worst Years / Cronica de mis Anos Peores.