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<em>"Their expressionistic, dreamlike representations bring to consciousness reservoirs of feelings and primordial images from the Mexican collective unconscious.”—from the Preface by Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, Ph.D.</em>

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The book is a Spanish-English bilingual meditation on the role that the railroad and the <em>carpal</em> (itinerant vaudeville troupes) played in the Mexican-American communities of the Southwest.  Artist Marta Sánchez and the writer Norma Elia Cantú collaboratively render images and poetry that poignantly reflect specific periods in that history. /Presentación del libro colaborativo de estas dos artistas, visual y poeta, sobre el rol del tren itinerante en las comunidades mejicoamericanas.

[caption id="attachment_4070" align="alignleft" width="88"]<img class=" wp-image-4070" src="http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Marta-Sanchenze-150x150.jpg" alt="Marta Sánchez" width="88" height="88" /> Marta Sánchez[/caption]

Marta Sánchez was born and raised near the train yards in San Antonio, Texas.  An artist and educator, her artworks have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, and were part of the traveling exhibition, <em>Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge</em>.   Sánchez is well known for her ongoing art project Cascarones por la Vida (Eggshells for Life).

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[caption id="attachment_4069" align="alignleft" width="91"]<img class="wp-image-4069" src="http://tallerpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Cantu-150x150.jpg" alt="Dr. Norma Elia Cantú" width="91" height="91" /> Dr. Norma Elia Cantú[/caption]

Dr. Norma Elia Cantú was born in Mexico and raised in Laredo, Texas. The National Association of Chicanas and Chicano Studies named her the 2008 Scholar of the Year.  She is the author of <em>Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera</em>, which was presented at Taller’s Feria del Libro in 2003.

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*Cover: Marta Sánchez, <em>The Horizon, 1999</em>