Judith Ortiz Cofer, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (200p) ISBN 978-0-374-20509-6
A starred or boxed review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.THE MEANING OF CONSUELOJudith Ortiz Cofer. Farrar,
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, Author University of Georgia Press $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8203-1335-1
Puerto Rican emigres try to adapt to life in the U.S. while maintaining island culture in a Spanish-speaking tenement. ``Though weakened by clumsy plotting, arbitrary shifts in points of view and sometimes pedestrian prose . . . Cofer's novel paints
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, Author Arte Publico Press $12.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-55885-015-6
The essays and poems in Ortiz Cofer's latest collection bridge the gap between autobiography and fiction, between personal remembrance and social commentary. As she shuttles between her village in Puerto Rico and the concrete high-rise ``barrio'' in
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-31313-0
The winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for its celebration of diversity, Cofer's collection of essays, fiction and poetry depicts the Puerto Rican immigrant experience. (May)
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, Author Arte Publico Press $16.95 (98p) ISBN 978-1-55885-224-2
Returning to the territory covered in An Island Like You and Silent Dancing, Cofer further heightens her descriptions of barrio life with a pervasive current of sensuality and rebellion in this volume of poems and stories about growing up during the
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, Author Scholastic $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-531-06897-7
Cofer's (Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood) 12 consistently sparkling, sharp short stories pungently recreate the atmosphere of a Puerto Rican barrio in Paterson, N.J. A different teenager is the focus of each entry,...
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, Author University of Georgia Press $22.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-8203-1106-7
The vivid opening of this first novel, in which the hero, Guzman, kicks lustily in Mama Cielo's womb, abates somewhat before the first chapter ends. Even the doughty, tyrannical Cielo succumbs to the trials of Puerto Rican life--her older son's...
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, Author University of Georgia Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8203-1556-0
Here Ortiz ( Terms of Survival ) vividly depicts the lives of Puerto Rican immigrants through both poetry and prose. ``Corazon's Cafe,'' for example, a short story, tells of a childless couple moving to Paterson, N.J., to open a bodega. But Manuel...
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, Author Puffin Books $6.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-038068-2
""Twelve consistently sparkling, sharp stories recreate the atmosphere of a Puerto Rican barrio,"" said PW in a starred review. ""This fine collection may draw special attentions for its depictions of an ethnic group underserved by YA writers, but...
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, illus. by Oscar Ortiz. Arte Público/Piñata, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55885-704-9
A bilingual girl named Juliana learns about the immersive nature of poetry after a poet moves into the apartment above hers. Just the sound of the woman typing is enough to transport Juliana to a tropical island in her dreams; after venturing...
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