Download or read book Promesas: Geography of the Impossible written by Gloria Vando and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly praised collection explores the disparity between promises and reality, especially as seen from the vantage point of the Hispanic Americans from the time of Columbus to the present. Promesas: Geography of the Impossible is Gloria VandoÍs long-awaited first book of poems, a reunion of some of the complex and fully realized works that have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. She received the 1991 Billee Murray Denny Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the 1992 Walt Whitman Poetry Context and the 1989 Poetry Society of AmericaÍs Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award.