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I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas(Wittliff Collections Literary Series)

I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas(Wittliff Collections Literary Series)


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Ann Alejandro, who lived all her life on a ranch in Uvalde, Texas, was a prolific writer with breathtaking natural talent. Though she lived for more than thirty years with chronic pain caused by fibromyalgia and other, mostly undiagnosed, illnesses, she wrote thousands of pages of poems, essays, and other creative works, the vast majority of it unpublished until now.

Alejandro was also known for her lengthy letters, many written to her mother, who lived in the same town. Here in I Know About a Thousand Things, editors Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik have selected the very best of Alejandro’s writing—vignettes, anecdotes, rants, and more. In fact, the opening poem in this collection, “I Know a Thinger Two,” was assembled by Nye, using lines from the many letters and emails she had received from Alejandro over the years. This collection, with commentary by Winik and Nye, is drawn from Alejandro’s vast creative output. It brings a measure of recognition to a woman who, though she labored in what might be seen as faithful obscurity, left behind a body of essays, letters, and poetry deserving of the most serious contemplation and appreciation. I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas will delight and enrich readers for years to come.



About the Author :
Naomi Shihab Nye teaches creative writing at Texas State University in San Marcos. The author of more than thirty volumes of poetry, essays, and short fiction, including 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East; I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You Okay?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven; and There Is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.MARION WINIK, author of Highs in the Low Fifties, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Rules for the Unruly, and other books, is an essayist and occasional commentator for National Public Radio. She is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Baltimore.

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"How can you not respect a poet whose favorite drink is 'HEB generic diet orange, ' who inscrutably lists Tommy Lee Jones along with 'scorpions in my panties' among her greatest fears, and who can declare--from hard experience--that 'No one wants to hear you scream, and so you learn not to.' Wow, what a voice Ann Alejandro had! Thank you, Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Wink, for making sure we heard it."--Stephen Harrigan, author of The Leopard Is Loose--Stephen Harrigan "Like the sweeping turns in the dirt roads of the land she called home, just when you think you're getting the full picture of Ann Alejandro, she surprises you with a new and extraordinary view. Her writing is beautiful, startling, and uniquely frank."-- Elizabeth Crook, author of The Which Way Tree--Elizabeth Crook


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781648432408
  • Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Texas A & M University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Series Title: Wittliff Collections Literary Series
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1648432409
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas


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