Gary Soto
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Gary Soto was born April 12, 1952, and raised in Fresno California. He graduated from Roosevelt High School and attended Fresno City College, graduating in 1974 with an English degree. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including The Nation, Plouqhshares, The Iowa Review, Ontario vis mere Review and Poetry, which has honored him with the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Award and by featuring him in Poets in Person. He is one of the youngest poets to appear in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Soto has received the Discovery-The Nation Prize, the U.S. Award of the International Poetry Forum, The California Library Association's John and Patricia Beatty Award twice, a Recogniton of Merit from the Claremont Graduate School for Baseball in April, the Silver Medal from The Commonwealth Club of California, and the Tomás Rivera Prize, in addition to fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts twice, and the California Arts Council. For ITVS, he produced the film The Pool Party, which received the 1993 Andrew Carnegie Medal. Soto wrote the libretto for an opera titled Nerd-landia for the The Los Angeles Opera. In 1999 he received the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West Book Award for Petty Crimes. He serves as Young People's Ambassador for the California Rural Legal Assistance and the United Farm Workers of America. Soto is the author of ten poetry collections for adults, with New and Selected Poems a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His recollections Living Up the Street received a Before Columbus Foundation 1985 American Book Award. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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What the World Hears : California Poets in the Schools 2009 Statewide Anthology - 45th Anniversary Edition (2009) 4 eksemplarer
The Marble Champ 2 eksemplarer
Tamales 1 eksemplar
The Afterlife 1 eksemplar
To Many Tamales 1 eksemplar
Seventh Grade 1 eksemplar
Chatos Kitchen 1 eksemplar
Too Many Tomales 1 eksemplar
Isolation Ward 1 eksemplar
Como arbustos de niebla 1 eksemplar
Big Bushy Mustache, Unit 1 1 eksemplar
Tell Me, Once Again, What Was It Like? 1 eksemplar
Gil Mendez & the Metaphysics of a Blimp 1 eksemplar
La Bamba 1 eksemplar
Chatos Kitchen - Take Home Book Packs 1 eksemplar
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Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Bidragyder — 102 eksemplarer
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement (1997) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 100 eksemplarer
Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience (2019) — Bidragyder — 66 eksemplarer
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry (1994) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
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