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Urban speak – Poetry of the City

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Synopsis
 This volume documents students from the University of Houston reacting to the urban landscape of Houston under the meticulous eye of their poetry teacher, Sarah Cortez.
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“…a new batch of Houston writers explore life in poems that are gritty, throbbing, stubbornly triumphant creations that come from living in the nation’s fourth largest city.” 
Collegium: The Magazine of [...]

Windows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives

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Synopsis
This collection of essays written by young men & women from various Latino backgrounds reflects the diversity of growing up Latino in the USA. Illuminating memoirs shine a light into the lives of young Hispanic adults for ages 16 and up.
Youth & Young Adult literature

Reviewed by: Amie Rose Rotruck
Sarah Cortez’s class “Memoir and Mexican American [...]

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HIT LIST: The Best of Latino Mystery

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Synopsis
 Collection of first time short mystery fiction by Latino authors who have pioneered the genre, using it to showcase their unique cultures, neighborhoods & realities. Contains both stylistically & ethnically diverse stories that run the gamut of the genre, from traditional to noir, private eye to police procedural, even chick lit.
 
HIT LIST …locks you in [...]

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How to Undress a Cop

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The poems of Sarah Cortez are tough-minded, verbally supple, and often deeply (even explicitly) erotic: “You want me to come/ to you each night, drop my gun belt,/ lie along your muscled length . . .” 
 
And each of these fifty lyric poems (with titles such as “Rosie Working Plain Clothes,” “Las Tas,” and “Attempt [...]

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