'I am learning the alchemy of grief--how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted--...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's third volume of poetry collects thirty-four poems written over the course of...

In this collection of essays woven with poems and folklore, Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of...

Lessons from a Writer's Life

How do women writers cope with changes and juggle the demands in their already full lives to make...

Riding Low on the Streets of Gold collects Latino stories.

Fifteen year old Doris is the daughter of saleros, a father who is a musician with his own band ...

A community transplanted from what they now view as an island paradise, these Puerto Rican famili...

Recipient of The New York Public Library's 1991 Best Book for the Teen Age, a PEN citation, Marth...

In this collection of essays woven with poems and folklore, Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of...

A charming, animated picture book about salsa music and dance. This first picture book by award-w...

Set in the 1950s and 1960s, 'The Line of the Sun' moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a to...

Finalmente esta disponible para los lectores la tan esperada traduccion al espanol de la obra pre...

Shimmering fragments of poetry, fiction, fable, and essay reflect a kaleidoscopic vision of burge...

Teenaged Mary Ellen -- known to her parents as Maria Elenita -- is pulling away from their conser...

An evocative collection of poetry, personal essays, and short fiction in which the dominant subje...

A cultural legacy and a woman's desire 'to be released from rituals' -- these are the terms that ...

The Poet Upstairs

La Poeta del Piso de Arriba

A Spanish-language edition of ''The Latin Deli'', Judith Cofer's prizewinning collection of short...

Twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their American s...