One Kind of Faith

Description

The award-winning Chicano poet offers a poetic look at his hometown of Fresno, California, and its environs--from Berkeley dogs that practice feng shui to raisins marching out of a factory--as well as a second section that includes twelve film treatments for David Lynch and a long meditative poem.

Praise for Gary Soto "Gary Soto's poems are fast, funny, heartrending, and achingly believable, like Polaroid love letters, or snatches of music heard out of a passing car; patches of beauty like patches of sunlight; the very pulse of a life. Junior College is a strong sequel to his wonderful New and Selected Poems." -Joyce Carol Oates "I read Gary Soto's poems with delight. There's no one I know, certainly in this language, who writes like him. For me, his is a deeply important poetry; it gives me joy to see this New and Selected Poems." -Gerald Stern "In his New and Selected Poems, Gary Soto creates a California of his own - a world richly peopled with family and friends, a world suffused with love that knows, suffers, and accepts sorrow without being embittered by it. And Soto writes with a pure sweetness free of sentimentality that is almost extraordinary in modern American poetry." -Andrew Hudgins "Soto may be the most exciting poet of poverty in America to emerge since J