{"product_id":"when-living-was-a-labor-diana-garca-9780816520435","title":"When Living Was a Labor Camp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I write what I eat and smell,\"\u003c\/b\u003e says Diana Garc?, and her words are a bountiful harvest. Her poems color the page with the vibrancy and sweetness of figs, the freshness of tortillas, and the sensuality of language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this, Garc?'s first collection of poems, she takes a bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there. Writing from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, she catapults the reader into the lives of the campesinos with their daily joys and sorrows.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBold, political, and familial, Garc?'s poems gift the reader with a sense of earth, struggle, and pride-each line filled with the sounds of agrarian music, from mariachi melodies to repatriation revolts. Embodied with such spirit, her poems rise with the convictions of power and equality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diana Garc?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816520437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816520435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.04w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/30\/2000 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2001 pg. 198","brand":"Diana Garc?","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992497422591,"sku":"9780816520435","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2dd9aa7f-7400-4f20-8927-03b8ea4419db.jpg?v=1683319262","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-living-was-a-labor-diana-garca-9780816520435","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}