South Texas Poets: Readings by four award-winning poets from San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley

Spoken word performances and book signings.
Names of Poets: Eddie Vega, Prisicilla Lina Suarez, Edward Vidaurre, and Daniel García Ordaz

Asina is How We Talk is a fresh and tasty morsel of language activism, a defense of that nepantla of a borderland between two cultures, two languages, two nations, where even how we accent our words, which languages we speak, and whether those languages are allowed to consort with each other become a political, personal, and possibly confrontational action. An anthem of biculturalism, it fills our senses with the tastes and sounds of that cultural and linguistic mix where children of the Aztec Quinto Sol express their uniqueness and pride "...Eating pepperoni pizza/With salsa verde..." (Nicolás Valdez) and learn that "cenizas quedan/ my body should be a furnace" (ire'ne lara silva.)

 

Event date: 
Friday, June 16, 2023 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Event address: 
306 Pearl Parkway
Suite 106
San Antonio, TX 78215
Asina is How We Talk: A collection of Tejano poetry written en la lengua de la gente By Eddie Vega (Editor), Isabel Ann Castro (Cover Design by) Cover Image
By Eddie Vega (Editor), Isabel Ann Castro (Cover Design by)
$15.00
ISBN: 9781953447876
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Flowersong Press - December 5th, 2022

Asina is How We Talk is a fresh and tasty morsel of language activism, a defense of that nepantla of a borderland between two cultures, two languages, two nations, where even how we accent our words, which languages we speak, and whether those languages are allowed to consort with each other become a political, personal, and possibly confrontational action.


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