CURRENTS FROM THE DANCING RIVER: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. SIGNED first edition - The most comprehensive and ambitious anthology of Latino writings published to date. SIGNED by FIVE contributors: Juan Felipe Herrera on the half title page; . Luis J. Rodriguez at his poem "The Quiet Woman; " Luis Alberto Urea at "Father's Day," Lucha Corpi at her poem 'Fugue" and Alberto Rivera Rios at his long poem "How the Mouth Works." Includes 135 contributions primarily by Cuban, Puerto Rican and Mexican Americans. Includes work by Francisco Alarcon, Rudolfo Anaya, Cristina Garcia, Richard Rodriguez, Helena Maria Viramontes, , Gloria Anzaldua, Mary Helen Ponce, Martin Espada, Pat Mora, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Louis Alberto Urrea, David Ungar, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lucha Corpi, Benjamin Alire Saenz, and many others. Includes note on the contributors. 571 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6001306.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers (one page dog-earred, light toning to the pages.)