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Books by Demetria Martinez
  | | Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana(First Edition) (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series) by Demetria Martinez Paperback, 173 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3722-3, ISBN: 0-8061-3722-3 "“We’re everywhere, and it’s time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spanish in Ten Minutes a Day while You Nap. . . . We grew up listening to the language—usually in the kitchens of extended family—but we answered back mostly in English.”Demetria Martínez wields her trademark blend of humor and irony to give voice to her own “tongue-tied generation” in this notable s ..." |
 | | The Block Captain's Daughter (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series) by Demetria Martinez Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4291-3, ISBN: 0-8061-4291-X "Guadalupe Anaya, a waitress, is pregnant. She is also the newly elected block captain of Sunflower Street, in charge of raising awareness of safety in her southeast Albuquerque neighborhood. Her campaign platform: God helps those who help themselves. While she waits for the baby, Lupe writes letters to her unborn child, whom she names Destiny. It is Lupe s dream that her daughter will be a writer, pushing a pen instead of a broom.In thi ..." |
 | | Breathing Between the Lines(1st Edition) Poems (Camino del Sol) by Demetria Martinez Paperback, 61 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-1798-5, ISBN: 0-8165-1798-3 "Demetria Martínez has entered the public consciousness by way of the heart. In 1994, she captured a Western States Book Award with her first novel, Mother Tongue, which went on to win widespread national attention. Now, in Breathing between the Lines, the writer returns to poetry, her first love. Many of the poems in this book touch on the themes from Mother Tongue, about an American activist who falls in love with a Salvadoran p ..." |
 | | MOTHER TONGUE.(1st Edition) by Demetria Martinez Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1997 by One World ISBN-13: 978-0-345-41656-8, ISBN: 0-345-41656-2 ""It is a great beauty of a book, and I am so proud of you for standing with and for the disappeared. A sister, a lover, a witness."--Alice WalkerMary is nineteen and living alone in Albuquerque. Adrift in the wake of her mother's death, she longs for something meaningful to take her over. Then José Luis enters her life. A refugee from El Salvador and its bloody civil war, José has been smuggled to the United States as part of the sanctu ..." |
 | | Three Times a Woman Chicana Poetry by Demetria Martinez, Maria Herrera-Sobek, Alicia De Alba Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 1989 by Bilingual Pr (Bilrp) ISBN-13: 978-0-916950-91-0, ISBN: 0-916950-91-3 "This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by three outstanding Chicana poets. Alicia Gaspar de Alba cultivates a poetry of paradox that explores the borders between politics and the sexes. Maria Herrera-Sobek's collection is suffused with memories that keep alive the dead, and that, with the help of ars poetica, reorder lives and events that have been blown away. Demetria Martinez has written a sensitive, caring and morally ..." |
 | | Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana (Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas) by Demetria Martinez Hardcover, 173 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3706-3, ISBN: 0-8061-3706-1 "“We’re everywhere, and it’s time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spanish in Ten Minutes a Day while You Nap. . . . We grew up listening to the language—usually in the kitchens of extended family—but we answered back mostly in English.”Demetria Martínez wields her trademark blend of humor and irony to give voice to her own “tongue-tied generation” in this notable s ..." |
 | | Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez Paperback, 121 Pages, Published 1994 by Bilingual Pr Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-927534-43-7, ISBN: 0-927534-43-6 "Mother Tongue121 pp. "Winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for fiction, Mother Tongue tells of the love between a young, naive Mexican-American girl named Maria and Jose Luis, a Salvadoran refugee. In touching, passionate, poetic prose, Martinez pulls the reader along on Maria's journey into womanhood and never lets go. Told through letters, journal entries, a grocery list and other bits of her life's incunabula, Maria reconstru ..." |
 | | Lengua Madre/Mother Tongue (Spanish Edition) by Demetria Martinez Published 1996 by Random House Australia 1996 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-86824-681-9, ISBN: 0-86824-681-6 |
 | | Mother Tongue(1st Edition) by Demetria Martinez Hardcover, 121 Pages, Published 1994 by Bilingual Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-927534-42-0, ISBN: 0-927534-42-8 "Mary is nineteen, subject to depression, and still grieving over the death of her mother when she meets Jose Luis, a political refugee from El Salvador.Though ostensibly Mary plans simply to help Jose Luis adjust to his new life in the United States, she has another agenda - she plans to fall in love with this man whose life seems so fundamentally different from her own.During the early days of their relationship, Jose Luis, a student a ..." |
 | | The Devil's Workshop(1st Edition) Poems (Camino del Sol) by Demetria Martinez Hardcover, 108 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-2196-8, ISBN: 0-8165-2196-4 ""I can no more describe love," writes Demetria Martínez, "than mystics can light." Don't believe it for a minute. In this collection of fifty-three poems, the author of the award-winning novel Mother Tongue explores the themes that have long characterized her writing: the creative and destructive powers of romantic love, the failure of political systems, the spiritual life, and the need to forgive oneself in order to move on with the wo ..." |
 | | Mother Tongue(1st Edition) by Demetria Martinez . Hardcover, 194 Pages, Published 1996 by One World/Ballantine ISBN-13: 978-0-345-40602-6, ISBN: 0-345-40602-8 "A love story. A journey in search of self. A meditation on our frightening times. With Mother Tongue, Demetria Martínez gives us all these and more, in an unforgettable novel infused with the color, sunlight, and cool shadows of the world her two lovers inhabit. Told in the cadences of a poet, with the unsparing honesty of a woman looking back on the most important decision of her life, the events in Mother Tongue unfold with the urgenc ..." |
 | | The Devil's Workshop(1st Edition) Poems (Camino del Sol) by Demetria Martinez Paperback, 108 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-2197-5, ISBN: 0-8165-2197-2 ""I can no more describe love," writes Demetria Martínez, "than mystics can light." Don't believe it for a minute. In this collection of fifty-three poems, the author of the award-winning novel Mother Tongue explores the themes that have long characterized her writing: the creative and destructive powers of romantic love, the failure of political systems, the spiritual life, and the need to forgive oneself in order to move on wit ..." |
 | | Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-4498-7806-1, ISBN: 1-4498-7806-7 |
 | | Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas Block Captain's Daughter by Demetria Martinez 104 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-8787-7, ISBN: 0-8061-8787-5 "Two cats with paws that look like cotton balls swarm around my ankles as I unlock the door to the adobe house I share with Flor. The cats' real names are Scratch and Sniff, but Flor changed them after Bush spoke of Shock and Awe to describe ..." |
 | | Mother Tongue Pb by Demetria Martinez Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2000 by Allison & Busby ISBN-13: 978-0-7490-0335-7, ISBN: 0-7490-0335-9 "Mary, 19, lives alone in Albuquerque following her mother's death. Into her life comes Jose Luis, a refugee from El Salvador who has been smuggled into the USA. By throwing herself into his life, Mary receives her own initiation not only in love but into political awareness." |
 | | Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez マスマーケット, Published 1998 by Random House Value Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-517-31477-7, ISBN: 0-517-31477-0 "A love story. A journey in search of self. A meditation on our frightening times. With Mother Tongue, Demetria Martínez gives us all these and more, in an unforgettable novel infused with the color, sunlight, and cool shadows of the world her two lovers inhabit. Told in the cadences of a poet, with the unsparing honesty of a woman looking back on the most important decision of her life, the events in Mother Tongue unfold with the urgenc ..." |
 | | Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez Published 1997 ISBN-13: 978-1-4407-5985-7, ISBN: 1-4407-5985-5 |
 | | Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez Published 1997 ISBN-13: 978-1-4640-2705-5, ISBN: 1-4640-2705-6 |
 | | Comadres(1st Edition) Hispanic Women of the Rio Puerco Valley by Nasario Garcia, Demetria Martinez Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2002 by Western Edge Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-889921-15-0, ISBN: 1-889921-15-7 "Comadres celebrates a way of life, a regional language, and a generation of women whose contribution to New Mexican history and culture has long been overlooked. Branding cows, birthing children, sewing sheets, hauling water, and building walls, the hands of these women shaped the world in which they lived; their stories contribute to the ongoing legacy of Hispanic culture.García transcribes the women's remembrances in a printed regiona ..." |
 | | Chicana Ways Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers by Karin Ikas, Gloria Anzaldua, Denise Chavez, Karin Rosa Ikas, Lucha Corpi, Jamie Lujan, Demetria Martinez, Pat Mora, Cherrie Moraga, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Mary Helen Ponce, Jane Doe Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Nevada Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87417-492-2, ISBN: 0-87417-492-9 "During the past two decades, literary issues like multiculturalism, gender, borders and border crossing, and the development of personal, cultural, and alternative identities have become increasingly important. The same years have seen the flourishing of writers from a number of ethnic minorities, including the Mexican-American women who are the subjects of these probing and insightful interviews by Karin Rosa Ikas. The ten Chicana writ ..." |
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