Mi vida en España, 1916-1936

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

An oral history of four generations of Hispanic women in New Mexico. Twenty-one Hispanas recall life experiences spanning a period from the time when New Mexico was a Spanish-speaking territory until today. Themes include: the shift from a rural to an urban environment ; the struggle to preserve culture and traditions ; efforts to cope with discrimination ; changes in family relations ; the striving for education, job, and careers ; service to family and community ; dedication to social change.

A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native land.

Los hechos que se narran en la presente obra forman parte de la historia de la cuidad primada de Cuba; Baracoa, tierra de ricas tradiciones patrióticas y culturales. Aquí están las huellas de nuestros próceres por la independencia y de la lucha por la liberación nacional; estos últimos comprometidos con la Revolución decidieron dar El abrazo a una causa, que no fue en vano. Ellos supieron organizarse, entre los que estuvieron los hombres de la compañía Manuel Tames del Segundo Frente Oriental, quienes vieron bien claro que el triunfo de Enero iba a ser y ha siso para siempre la gran...