2023 Tia Chucha Press Releases Bundle

2023 Tia Chucha Press Releases Bundle

Limited Edition, Two Book Bundle 

"The Place of the White Heron: A Novel" (Paperback) by Alejandro Morales

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"The Stranger You Are: Art by Gronk (English and Spanish Edition)" (Paperback) by Gail Wronsky

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"The Place of the White Heron: A Novel" (Paperback) by Alejandro Morales

Tia Chucha Press is honored to announce The Place of the White Heron, our first novel after thirty-four years of publishing poetry collections and anthologies. By renowned Chicano writer and scholar Alejandro Morales, the book is a parable for the twenty-first century, an allegory of the violence, racism, and international tensions between the United States and México. Protagonist J. I. Cruz embodies a mythic female character needed in our besieged times. Allusions to pre-Columbian goddesses and other Mexican mythological, religious, artistic, spiritual, and historical figures are part of her psychological and spiritual identity.

"The Stranger You Are: Art by Gronk (English and Spanish Edition)" (Paperback) by Gail Wronsky

A collaboration by a legendary artist and a writer hailed by David St. John as “a poet of lasting beauty and relentless invention”
 
Gronk was raised in East Los Angeles and lives in downtown LA. Gail Wronsky was raised in suburban Detroit and lives in the hippie haven of Topanga Canyon. But as artists they have found common ground—a shared commitment to the offbeat and the beautiful, to the slightly absurd and the slyly surreal, to blurring the distinction between our inner lives of dreams and imagination and our daily realities. Wronsky’s poems and Gronk’s drawings are equally grounded in poetic imagery. Wronsky mixes vernacular diction, or spoken language, with a more formal style in a way that is entirely unique; Gronk’s signature style alludes to both street art and classical art. Both are committed to making memorable work that surprises and delights, that sharpens and feeds our everyday lives as well as our deepest selves.