{"product_id":"i-ask-the-impossible-isbn-9780385720731","title":"I Ask the Impossible","description":"An Anchor Books Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cherished for her passionate fiction and exuberant essays,   the author hailed by Julia Alvarez as \"una storyteller \u003ci\u003ede primera\u003c\/i\u003e,\" and by Barbara   Kingsolver in \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eas \"impossible to resist,\" returns to her first   love—poetry—to reveal an unwavering commitment to social justice, and a fervent embrace   of the sensual world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With the poems in \u003cb\u003eI Ask the Impossible\u003c\/b\u003e, Castillo celebrates   the strength that \"is a woman buried deep in [her] heart.\" Whether memorializing   real-life heroines who have risked their lives for humanity, spinning a lighthearted   tale for her young son, or penning odes to mortals, gods, goddesses, Castillo's poems   are eloquent and rich with insight. She shares over twelve years of poetic inspiration,   from her days as a writer who \"once wrote poems in a basement with no heat,\" through   the tenderness of motherhood and bitterness of loss, to the strength of love itself,   which can \"make the impossible a simple act.\" Radiant with keen perception, wit,   and urgency, sometimes erotic, often funny, this inspiring collection sounds the   unmistakable voice of a \"woman on fire\" and \"more worthy than stone.\"Ana Castillo is the author of the novels \u003cb\u003ePeel My Love Like an Onioin, So Far from God, The Mixquiahuala Letters\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eSapogonia\u003c\/b\u003e.  She has written a story collection, \u003cb\u003eLoverboys\u003c\/b\u003e; the crtitical study Massacre of the Dreamers; the poetry collection \u003cb\u003eMy Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e; and the children's book \u003cb\u003eMy Daughter, My Son, the Eagle, The Dove\u003c\/b\u003e.  She is the editor of the anthology \u003cb\u003eGoddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe\u003c\/b\u003e, available from Vintage Espanol (\u003cb\u003eLa diosa de las Americas\u003c\/b\u003e).  Castillo has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Book Award, a Carl Sandburg Award, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.  She lives in Chicago with her son, Marcel.Author of So Far From God","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44862314578149,"sku":"NP9780385720731","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385720731.jpg?v=1767729605","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/i-ask-the-impossible-isbn-9780385720731","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}