The Elements of San Joaquin: Poems
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Expanded from the award-winning Chicano poetβs 1977 original, this poetry collection explores the hardships and joys of migrant workers in California.
A timely new edition of a pioneering work in Latino literature, National Book Awardβnominee Gary Sotoβs first collection (originally published in 1977) draws on Californiaβs fertile San Joaquin Valley, the people, the place, and the hard agricultural work done there by immigrants. In these poems, joy and anger, violence and hope are placed in both the metaphorical and very real circumstances of the Valley. Rooted in personal experiencesβof the poet as a young man, his friends, family, and neighborsβthe poems are spare but expansive, with Sotoβs voice as important as ever. This welcome new edition has been expanded with a crucial selection of complementary poems (some previously unpublished) and a new introduction by the author.
Praise for The Elements of San Joaquin
βA response to the charged, ideologically defiant voices from the seventies, The Elements of San Joaquin forever changed the course of Latino literature, redirecting us toward the mundane and ephemeral. The poetβs only commitment, Gary Soto seemed to suggest, is to life itself. His teacher and role model was Philip Levine, who encouraged him to see his own neighborhood, indeed his own backyard, as a kingdom. The result was a type of poetry that weathered inclement times in ways that scores of other instant βhitsβ couldnβt. It was new yet as old as the Bible and it still is. The word βclassicβ is overused these days. Not in this case.β βIlan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in the Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, and general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature
βIn the original The Elements of San Joaquin, Gary Soto defined the Chicano character as an underrepresented part of the American whole, the identity that would serve as foundation for my lifeβs work. My parents and grandparents had crossed borders, but Soto rooted me, us, hereβin the daily poverty of mejicano vecindadesβon all those rural βBraly Streetsβ of Fresno, Brawley, and Salinas. His elements of sun, wind, stars, and field shadowed my own destiny to bring justice there, to the people of the hoe and harvest.β βJosΓ© Padilla, Executive Director of California Rural Legal Assistance
A timely new edition of a pioneering work in Latino literature, National Book Awardβnominee Gary Sotoβs first collection (originally published in 1977) draws on Californiaβs fertile San Joaquin Valley, the people, the place, and the hard agricultural work done there by immigrants. In these poems, joy and anger, violence and hope are placed in both the metaphorical and very real circumstances of the Valley. Rooted in personal experiencesβof the poet as a young man, his friends, family, and neighborsβthe poems are spare but expansive, with Sotoβs voice as important as ever. This welcome new edition has been expanded with a crucial selection of complementary poems (some previously unpublished) and a new introduction by the author.
Praise for The Elements of San Joaquin
βA response to the charged, ideologically defiant voices from the seventies, The Elements of San Joaquin forever changed the course of Latino literature, redirecting us toward the mundane and ephemeral. The poetβs only commitment, Gary Soto seemed to suggest, is to life itself. His teacher and role model was Philip Levine, who encouraged him to see his own neighborhood, indeed his own backyard, as a kingdom. The result was a type of poetry that weathered inclement times in ways that scores of other instant βhitsβ couldnβt. It was new yet as old as the Bible and it still is. The word βclassicβ is overused these days. Not in this case.β βIlan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in the Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, and general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature
βIn the original The Elements of San Joaquin, Gary Soto defined the Chicano character as an underrepresented part of the American whole, the identity that would serve as foundation for my lifeβs work. My parents and grandparents had crossed borders, but Soto rooted me, us, hereβin the daily poverty of mejicano vecindadesβon all those rural βBraly Streetsβ of Fresno, Brawley, and Salinas. His elements of sun, wind, stars, and field shadowed my own destiny to bring justice there, to the people of the hoe and harvest.β βJosΓ© Padilla, Executive Director of California Rural Legal Assistance
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Gary Soto is the author of 12 poetry collections, including New and Selected Poems, a National Book Award finalist. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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