Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. ...y no se lo trago la tierra won the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and has become the standard literary text for Hispanic literature classes throughout the country. It is now an award-winning, motion picture entitled And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him. ... and the Earth did not devour him / Tomás Rivera -- from Voices of the fields: children of migrant farmworkers tell their stories / S. Beth Atkin -- Christmas / Langston Hughes -- Children for hire / Verena Dobnik and Ted Anthony -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- Aria: a memoir of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez