Lucha Corpi | Author

Lucha Corpi
poetry, bilingual children's books, mystery novels featuring a Chicana detective.

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Jan.19.2010

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READING FROM DEATH AT SOLSTICE: A GLORIA DAMASCO MYSTERY

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PUBLISHED: May.31.2009

The Triple Banana Split Boy/El Nino Goloso

Bilingual edition, illustrations by Lisa Fields

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PUBLISHED: Mar.31.2004

Crimson Moon: A Brown Angel Mystery

A woman’s harrowing fall down the side of a weedy cliff has left her struggling for every breath. A discarded manuscript is found buried under rotting food in a garbage dump. Falsified identities and faces half-hidden in the shadows of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement threaten to be unmasked. Private Investigators Justin Escobar and Dora Saldaña struggle through this web of...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.03.1980

Palabras de mediodía / Noon Words

Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words is Lucha Corpi's pioneering collection of poems that established her as a major figure in Mexican American literature. Written in Spanish and expertly translated by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, the poems fairly bloom off the page in a display of lyric virtuosity. Corpi is the first of the Mexican-American poets to explore through deeply personal and...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.03.1999

Black Widow's Wardrobe

Was it a spectre from the past, some Aztec revenant that had inspired the “Black Widow” to kill her husband? Or did these chilling murders have more to do with the rights of property and inheritance, and mere greed? Who better than Gloria Damasco, that indomitable detective with a flair for clairvoyance, to unravel this intricate and pulsing plot, which winds its way from an exotic...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.30.1997

Where Fireflies Dance / Ahi, donde bailan las luciernagas

In her first book for children, award-winning author Lucha Corpi remembers her childhood growing up in Jáltipan, where the moon hung low and the fireflies flickered in the night air. In vivid and poetic detail, she recalls exploring with her brother the old haunted house of the legendary revolutionary Juan Sebastián, discovering the music that came from the jukebox at the local...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.03.1995

Cactus Blood

Historic settings, California panoramas, and Hispanic culture texture this suspenseful search for a ritualistic assassin in the second novel featuring Chicana detective Gloria Damasco. "A shattering conclusion, complete with the requisite gunplay, leaves the reader eager for the next episode of this excellent homage to detective fiction." --San Francisco Chronicle

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PUBLISHED: Mar.03.1992

Eulogy for a Brown Angel

Eulogy for a Brown Angel began a new chapter in the mystery genre with the creation of the first Chicana detective in American literature. Now available for the first time in paperback, readers can discover, or rediscover, Lucha Corpi’s dynamic detective, Gloria Damasco, in the classic novel that started it all. A Chicano Civil Rights march has been disrupted by the Los Angeles...

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Dec.17.2010 - 11:10 am

Epiphany: The Third Gift

Ever since I was four years old, women insisted on giving me dolls. By age seven I had an assortment of them, made of papier-mache, clay, and cloth. Using my older cousins' torn...

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Dec.28.2010 - 6:54 pm

In response to: Epiphany: The Third Gift

Indeed

Gracias for your comments, Stephanie. I indeed feel lucky to have found literature and found out that writing is what I...

Jan.19.2010 - 2:07 pm

In response to: Reading from Death at Solstice

Death at Solstice (Arte Publico Press, 2009)

Please join me at "M" is for Mystery if you like a fast-paced narrative with Latino social issues and the...

Oct.20.2009 - 9:31 am

In response to: Reading and signing at Murder by the Book

Death at Solstice

reading and signing

Aug.22.2008 - 6:45 am

In response to: pen women presents maria espinosa

your video interview

Hi Maria, I just watched your interview. Wonderful!! I'm only sorry we didn't get to hear more about Dying Unfinished....

About Lucha

“We Chicanos are like the abandoned children of divorced cultures. We are forever longing to be loved by an absent neglectful parent –Mexico-and also to be truly accepted by the other parent –the United States. We want bicultural harmony. We need it to...

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Doctors without Borders
Amnesty International
The Macondo Foundation
Arte Publico Press
Children's Book Press

Lucha Corpipoetry, bilingual children's books, mystery novels featuring a Chicana detective.

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Lucha Corpi
poetry, bilingual children's books, mystery novels featuring a Chicana detective.