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Book Title: Touching the Fire : Fifteen Poets of Today's Latino Renaissance
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Ray Gonzalez
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Anthologies (Multiple Authors), American / General, American / Hispanic American
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1998
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 316 Pages
