About the book
Published by Moving
Parts Press in association with the University of California at Santa
Cruz, TALLOS DE LUNA / MOON SHOOTS is Elba Rosario Sánchez's rst
collection of poetry. Noted poet Francisco X. Alarcón says of Sánchez's
new book, "These poems, originally composed in both Spanish and English,
have the stark immediacy of testimonies, from the father who witnesses
a fellow Black steelworker slip and disappear into a smoldering furnace
of liquid iron in Chicago, to the mother anxiously waiting for the mailman's
next delivery in Mexico. By conjuring up the past, the poet turns into
a healer offering words as her medicine."
About the author
Elba Rosario Sánchez is a Chicana poet whose bicultural experience
is at the core of her poetry. She was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and
grew up in San Francisco's Mission District. Since 1980 she has worked
as an educator and activist in the Santa Cruz Latino community. She currently
teaches in the Spanish for Spanish Speakers Program at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. Her work is included in the anthology, New
Chicana/Chicano Writing, published in 1992 by the University of Arizona
Press. She is also founding co-editor of Revista Mujeres, a bilingual
publication for and by Chicanas and Latinas. Sánchez's contribution
to the denition of the Chicana experience is essential. Her voice emerges
from a strong and proud tradition into a thriving Latino literary community.
About the artist
Robert Chiarito has illustrated Elba's poems with a series of bold dry
brush black ink drawings. He rst collaborated with Elba in an earlier
Moving Parts Press publication, Porter Broadside Series Two: Pairings. The conception and impetus for TALLOS DE LUNA / MOON SHOOTS grew from
the success of this effort. An exhibit of his work will be mounted at
the Museo ItaloAmericano in San Francisco in 1993. Robert Chiarito currently
teaches painting and drawing at Santa Clara University and the University
of California, Santa Cruz.
About the publication
Moving Parts Press has issued editions of new literature and contemporary
art from its letterpress studio in Santa Cruz since 1977. In addition
book artist Felicia Rice has taught an annual typography and ne bookmaking
course for the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1987. In the
spring of 1992 Felicia Rice led a group of UCSC students in printing and
publishing TALLOS DE LUNA / MOON SHOOTS at Moving Parts Press.
Awards
TALLOS DE LUNA / MOON SHOOTS was selected from 538 submissions nationwide
by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) as one of "The Fifty
Books of 1992" for excellence in book design. In addition, this publication
was supported by the California Arts Council.
from
the LITERATURA CHICANA/LATINA SERIES Artists'
Books
This series explores the intersection of cultures, disciplines and
book structures. This series of contemporary Chicano/Latino artists and
writers in translation is issued in both limited and trade editions. Each
book is the result of a close collaboration between writer, artist and
book artist, Felicia Rice.
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