La Bloga: Guest Reviews – A FIRE IN MY HANDS by Gary Soto
Tagged: blog, bookPosted on: January 26th, 2007“Almost thirty years have passed since the publication of Gary Soto’s first book; the award winning collection of poetry titled The Elements of San Joaquin. For nearly three decades, readers of all walks have had the pleasure of experiencing life’s complexities from a Chicanito’s perspective of growing up in the San Joaquin Valley. Despite the fact that his hero, Pablo Neruda, clearly inhabits a world of his own, Soto, on occasion, has crafted poems that would have pleased the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. The revised and expanded edition of A Fire in My Hands Harcourt, 2006, a collection first published 15 years ago, boasts a handful of gems capable of making any poet happy.”
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