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Article: A woman of ordinary splendor.(Watercolor Women, Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse)(Book Review)
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- The Women's Review of Books
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- January 1, 2006
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Watercolor Women, Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse
By Ana Castillo
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2005, 269 pp., $15.00, paperback
During the past thirty years, Ana Castillo has published four novels, five books of poetry, one short story collection, one volume of scholarly essays, three edited or co-edited anthologies, and a children's book. Often referred to as a "pioneering" Chicana author, Castillo has been praised for giving voice to the lives and concerns of Mexican/ Chicana/india women. Significantly, she does not simply make visible these previously ignored lives. By putting marginalized women at the center of her poetry, fiction, and ...