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Heartbeats, Rhythms, And Fire is José Angel Figueroa’s newest poetry and prose collection. A major contributor to the Puerto Rican and Latinx literary movement in the United States., Figueroa is best known for his powerful social commentary, poetic storytelling, and visual imagery. His writings ar lyrical, rhythmic, and musical, sometimes autobiographical, and frequently politically charged; they do not fit neatly into one category.In this volume, Figueroa explores universal themes of the human experience as well as contemporary issues of immigration, racial injustice, and colonialism. His narratives voice the realities of everyday people as well as the commitments and passions of activists who advance justice.  Poems, personal essays, monologues, and elegies deliver an intriguing range of storytelling approaches. Figueroa invites the reader to question the origins of self, the roots of love, and the unpredictability vibrating from everyday life. His accounts of migration journeys and struggles against racism offer an insider perspective. Figueroa's narratives of immigration, poverty, and violence against women uplift the voices of everyday people while others relate the passion and fire of activists who toppled Puerto Rico's governor in 2019, Erica Garner who fought against police violence, and Oscar Lopez Rivera, the former Puerto Rican political prisoner.     "...This collection of voices created by José Angel Figueroa is what remains when you “can’t kill relentless faith born from the spirituals of stardust and many rivers.”   — Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Award-winning poet     "...Here is poetry fully empowered by jazz-like rhythms that remind us of Coltrane in A Love Supreme..."  — Pedro Lopez Adorno, Poet and novelist,      "... Figueroa’s Craft and Style / Speaks sounds / Of Heat and Soul..." — Amina Baraka, Poet, actress, author, and community organizer     "...Always filled with lucidity, love, refuge, respect, fulfillment and self-determination, Figueroa’s poetry is his liberation… his rite of passage… the necessary revolution for us all.” —Juan Sanchez, Visual artist and Professor of Art at Hunter CollegeMaster artist Rudy Gutierrez created the book cover and interior artwork.  His work has been described as "wall medicine," ancient yet contemporary, urban in a sense, and musical in feel. His work includes paintings, murals, artwork for album covers, films, US postal stamps, art books, and children's stories, that have received prestigious awards.Activist, educator, and independent scholar, Iris Morales edited the collection. She has edited several anthologies including Voices From Puerto Rico: Post Hurricane Maria,  Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA, and is the author of Through the Eyes of Rebel Women, the Young Lords: 1969 to 1976.

Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA is a timely collection of poetry and prose reflecting on women's lived experiences and the ways that Latinas address the relationship between gender and social change. Edited by longtime activist, Iris Morales, the authors are poets and activists, educators, artists, and journalists engaged in a variety of work from community organizing to university teaching. The selections illustrate how Latinas understand and resist the gendered conditions of their lives. They expose inequities that Latinas face as women but also by class; race, ethnicity, and national origin; immigration status; social location; and the legacy of history. The volume most closely aligns with the view of feminism as a movement to end sexist oppression, both its institutional and individual manifestations.The anthology includes a mix of genres: poems, personal narratives, letters, scholarly essays, news articles, excerpts from plays, mission statements, lyrics, and herstories looking across time, generational, and geographic boundaries. Each piece is unique. Together they open a window that reveals a range of Latina perspectives on important contemporary socio-economic-political and cultural concerns, and imaginings for a more humane world."This anthology is especially urgent in a moment marked by the "silence breakers" . . . and the simultaneous silencing of women of color within these narratives. Latinas, in particular, have much to teach us as we face escalated attacks on Latinx immigrants, the U.S.-fueled crisis in Puerto Rico, and the misogyny that guides legislation against health care…." Dr. Deborah Paredez, Co-Director and Co-Founder of CantoMundo, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Writing Program at Columbia University, and author of This Side of Skin and Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory.The volume is compiled and edited by Iris Morales, an educator, attorney, and writer. She is the author of Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: the Young Lords, 1969 through 1976, the first book about the experiences of women in the organization. She is the producer, writer and co-director of the documentary, Palante, Siempre Palante!, the Young Lords, which premiered on national public television in 1996 and continues to be screened in classrooms and community venues across the United States and Puerto Rico. Morales is a graduate of New York University School of Law and holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts.The anthology's contributors include a distinguished list of authors: Amanda Alcantara, Gloria Amescua, Nia Andino, Tania Asili, Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Ariana Brown, Rosa Clemente, Karla Cordero, Johanna Fernández, Maria Teresa "Mariposa" Fernández, Marisa Franco, Katherine Garcia, Claudia Sofia Garriga López, Magdalena Gómez, Jessica González-Rojas, Ysabel Y. González, Nancy Lorenza Green, Elena Gutíerrez, Jennicet Gutíerrez, Leticia Hernández-Linares, Karen Jaime, Aurora Levins Morales, Iris Morales, Stephanie Llanes, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, Florencia Milito, Lenina Nadal, Myrna Nieves, Emily Perez, Mónica Ramírez, Raquel Reichard, Carmen Rivera, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, Dominque Salas, Aida Salazar, Ruth Irupé Sanabria, Norma Liliana Valdez, Liliana Valenzuela, Vickie Vértiz, and Anjela Villarreal Ratliff.