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Janice Mirikitani
We, the Dangerous
San Francisco Poet Laureate
(2000)

Pisco Sours

by Ananda Esteva
"Verde!" cries Pisco Sours. This poetry grows fresh and green on the vine. In these poems you will hear the rhythms of conquest and rebellion, boiling over in a furious song. Ananda Esteva is a skilled wordsmith, blending together the shout of spoken word and the haunting chant of traditional songs. She takes us to Chile and to the Americas of the conquest and before. She guides us steadily on a journey through horror to the possibility of redemption. Join her on this march.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ananda Esteva was born in Chile and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works as an elementary school teacher. She has taught poetry with the East Bay Institute for Urban Arts, Digital Underground Story Telling, June Jordan's Poetry for the People, and Writers' Corps. She has toured across North America several times. Her writing weaves in a duality of culture, perspective, sexuality, and language. Ananda is currently working on a memoir detailing her first trip back to Chile in 1987 during Pinochet's dictatorship.

3/7/2007
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