ISBN: 0-927534-94-0
104 pp. | paper only | $11.00

poetry by Alfred Arteaga

Red is the newest collection of poetry by acclaimed writer and critic Alfred Arteaga. Written partly in Spanish and partly in English, these poems move between vivid, sensual impressions and sophisticated, intellectual wordplay. Life in Hollywood, sex and relationships, racism and injustice, and the nature of experience itself are among the themes he addresses in spare and elegant language.

Born in East Los Angeles, Alfred Arteaga is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Rockefeller Fellowship. He is the author of Cantos and Love in the Time of Aftershocks, both volumes of poetry, House with Blue Bed, creative nonfiction, and the scholarly works Chicano Poetics and An Other Tongue.