Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzalduan Borderlands

In homage to Gloria Anzald a and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex terrain--the deeply felt psychic, social, and geopolitical borderlands--that Anzald a inhabited, theorized, explored, and invented.

Named for the Nahuatl word meaning "their soul," Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzald an Borderlands presents work that is sparked from the soul: the individual soul, the communal soul. These poets interrogate, complicate, and personalize the borderlands in transgressive and transformative ways, opening new paths and revisioning old ones for the next generation of spiritual, political, and cultural border crossers.

"Within shifting borders-it is good to enter into these voice worlds-to stand, bow & listen in their presence. Peoples, familias, cities, towns, rancher as and the wilderness of all border-crossers & messengers of border spaces open in these pages." -From the Introduction by Juan Felipe Herrera, US Poet Laureate

Contributors include: Juan Felipe Herrera, Rodney Gomez, Daniel E. Sol s y Mart nez, Carmen Calatayud, ire'ne lara silva, Tara Betts, Jos Antonio Rodr guez, David Hatfield Sparks, Barbara Jane Reyes, Miguel M. Morales, Cecca Austin Ochoa, Cordelia Barrera, Oswaldo Vargas, Emmy P rez, Dan Vera, Michael Wasson, Melanie M rquez Adams, Tomas Moniz, Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez, D.M. Ch vez, In s Hern ndez-Avila, Nidia Melissa Bautista, Nadine Saliba, Monica Palacios, Jennine DOC Wright, C sar L. De Le n, Nia Witherspoon, Joe Jim nez, Roy G. Guzm n, Veronica Sandoval, Juan Morales, Victor Payan, Abigail Carl-Klassen, Sarah A. Chavez, Rachel McKibbens, jo reyes-boitel, Adela Najarro, Elsie Rivas G mez, Lupe Mendez, T. Sarmina, Shauna Osborn, Marie Varghese, Allen Baros, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ysabel Y. Gonz lez, Minal Hajratwala, Karla Cordero, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Pablo Miguel Mart nez, Barbara Brinson Curiel, Olga Garc a Echeverr a, Suzy de Jesus Huerta, David Bowles, John Fry, Kim Shuck