About the Author

Alfred Arteaga is a professor of Chicano studies at University of California, Berkeley. His books of poetry include Cantos (Chusma House Publications, 1991), Red (Bilingual Review Press, 2000), and the chapbook Love in the Time of Aftershocks (Chusma House Publications and Moving Parts Press, 1998). He is also the author of a memoir House with the Blue Bed (Mercury House, 1997), the critical theory Chicano Poetics, (Cambridge, 1997), and an edition of cultural studies An Other Tongue (Duke, 1994).