Castle He studied art education from Northeastern Illinois University, receiving his BA in 1975. At the university he became involved with the intellectual, artistic and activist Hispanic-American circles.
His first collection of poems, Another Song (1977), was published as a pocket book. In 1979, shortly after receiving a Master of Science in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, he published a second booklet, The invitation, in which female narrators describe the experience of the erotic. The work of Castle it draws on the sometimes contradictory political influences of militant ethnic and economic struggles and feminist and lesbian perspectives. Women Are Not Roses (1984), for example, explores the difficulties of poor and working-class women who must choose between devoting their energies to erotic relationships or class struggle.
On Mixquiahuala’s letters (1986), Castle continues her exploration of Latina women and their sexuality, and examines men’s reactions in Anglo and Latino communities. Written in an experimental way, the novel consists of letters sent over more than 10 years between two Latina women, arranged to be read in three different versions by three different types of readers: “The conformist“,”The cynic” Y “The Quijote“.
Castle wrote several collections of poetry, including Zero Makes Me Hungry (1975), My Father Was a Toltec (1988), I Ask the Impossible (2001), and Watercolor Women, Opaque Men (2005); also novels So far from god (1993), Peel My Love Like an Onion (1999), and The Guardians (2007); a collection of short stories, Loverboys (nineteen ninety six); a children’s book, My Daughter, My Son, the Eagle, the Dove (2000); and a collection of two plays, Psst… I Have Something to Tell You, My Love (2005).
Castle He also co-edited, with CherrÃe Moraga, This Bridge, My Back: Voices of Third World Women in the United States, the 1988 Spanish edition of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), and edited the anthology Goddess of the Americas (1996; in Spanish, The Goddess of the Americas), about the Virgin of Guadalupe.