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Gary Soto: A Career in Poetry and Prose

 
Gary Soto: A Career in Poetry and Prose

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In a 1995 interview, prolific Chicano writer Gary Soto noted, ""Wonderment has always been a part of my life."" This book surveys Soto's immense range of poems, stories, novels, essays and plays for audiences of prereaders to adults. Soto's world moves from the cotton and beet fields of the San Joaquin Valley to the blue-collar barrios of Fresno, and to urban and suburban settings in Oakland and Berkeley. Chapters analyze a wide variety of Soto titles, from his breakout works like 1977's The Elements of San Joaquin to the Chato the Cat illustrated books for children.

With self-deprecating humor, particularly in his poems, Soto combines his wonderment with the trials and conflicts that beset him throughout life. In such novels as Jesse, Buried Onions and The Afterlife, and in his stories for YA readers, including Baseball in April and Petty Crimes, his broad array of characters confront the anxieties and annoyances of adolescence. Although he continues to motivate young Chicanos to read and write, Soto stakes his greatest claims to literary prominence through his poems, which are accessible to readers of all ages.

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EAN/ISBN:
9781476687476
Medium:
Paperback
Number of pages:
252
Publication date:
2022-08-08
Publisher:
McFarland and Company, Inc.
Manufacturer:
Unknown
EAN/ISBN:
9781476687476
Medium:
Paperback
Number of pages:
252
Publication date:
2022-08-08
Publisher:
McFarland and Company, Inc.
Manufacturer:
Unknown

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