Download or read book Emplumada written by Lorna Dee Cervantes and published by Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1981-12-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes’s first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience.