When Living Was a Labor Camp (Camino Del Sol)
A poetry collection that traces García's memories of California farm labor camps and the lives of migrant workers. Family memory, the weight of labor, and a sensory attachment to the land combine to give the book both testimonial force and lyric intensity.
Work Information
Labor camp memories become poems that carry the scent of earth and fruit.
Diana García's first poetry collection revisits California farm labor camps and the people who lived there. Personal recollection and collective history overlap, turning labor, hardship, and pride into vivid language.
Review Summaries
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Readers value the rich sensory writing and the way the poems draw migrant labor history into lyric form. Some, however, find the intensity of the imagery and politics demanding.
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The book is praised for recovering labor-camp memories while treating the lives of farm workers with respect. Through the smells of the land and the pull of family memory, it balances testimony with poetic strength.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Univ of Arizona Pr
- Published
- 2000-09-01
- Pages
- 102 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 1.02 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780816520435
- ISBN-10
- 0816520437
- Price
- 3744 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
"I write what I eat and smell," says Diana García, and her words are a bountiful harvest. Her poems color the page with the vibrancy and sweetness of figs, the freshness of tortillas, and the sensuality of language. In this, García's first collection of poems, she takes a bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there. Writing from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, she catapults the reader into the lives of the campesinos with their daily joys and sorrows. Bold, political, and familial, García's poems gift the reader with a sense of earth, struggle, and pride&;each line filled with the sounds of agrarian music, from mariachi melodies to repatriation revolts. Embodied with such spirit, her poems rise with the convictions of power and equality
Reviews
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Excellent Condition
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The front cover and first half of the pages in the book were torn on the side