Through analysis of Cervantes' status as an itinerant poet, this book overturns conventional theories of the modern novel's genesis.

Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes’s first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted i

Presents the life of the sixteenth-century soldier, slave, actor, playwright, prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, and author of "Don Quixote."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight. This fictionalized first-person