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Title Little Havana blues : a Cuban-American literature anthology / edited by Delia Poey and Virgil Suárez.

Publication Info. Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 1996.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.8 LITTLE    Check Shelf
Description 444 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-444).
Contents Poetry -- The Jewish cemetery in Guanabacoa ; My grandmother in Miami Beach who sees everything in blue ; Returning / Ruth Behar -- America ; Letters for Mamá ; Crayons for Elena / Richard Blanco -- El curandero (the healer) ; Belonging ; For J.W. ; The test / Rafael Campo -- Looking South ; Abuelo Leopoldo sneaks a bite of cream cheese ; Santería / Sandra Castillo -- In the tradition of returning ; To the rumba players of Belén, Cuba / Adrian Castro -- Between language and desire ; Floating ; First shift at Hershey's , 4 a.m. ; Janis Joplin / Silvia Curbelo -- My two languages ; Funk indigo ; The story of L. / Jorge Guitart -- Geography jazz ; Blake in the tropics ; Freedom / Carolina Hospital -- Havana blues ; Forgotten memory ; Los Diegos / Wasabi Kanastoga -- Only the truly beautiful go mad ; History as a second language ; Pain / Dionisio Martínez -- Cuba ; Flight out of Miami ; Why I look out windows ; Cuban lullaby / Pablo Medina -- Etiquette ; Stand ; Second-hand / Gean Moreno -- Sugarcane ; Kimberle ; Sunday / Achy Obejas -- Charada China ; Exile / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- Lime cure ; On whether my father deserves a poem ; What's wrong with me / Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- III. Benediction ; VII. Madrid ; X. Lidia, Rey, and Jorge : a song ; XIV. Nomenclature / E.J. Vega -- Fiction -- The admiral cursed / Jose Barreiro -- On the moring of his arrest / Margarita Engle -- The last supper / Roberto G. Fernández -- Inés in the kitchen / Cristina García -- Cuba, Cuba, 1954 / Oscar Hijelos -- I'm holding his hand / Elias Miguel Muñoz -- The homecoming / Andrea O'Reilly Herrera -- The defector / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- Paloma / Beatriz Rivera -- Headshots / Virgil Suárez -- Liberation in Little Havana / Marisella Veiga -- The guns in the closet / Jose Yglesias -- Drama -- Once upon a future / Matias Montes Huidobro -- Coser y cantar / Dolores Prida -- Memories of my father's family during his self-imposed exile / Omar Torres -- Essay -- Lost in translation ; Spic'n Spanish ; Desi does it ; The barber of Little Havana ; Mirror, mirror ; English is broken here / Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- Arrival : 1960 / Pablo Medina -- Negrita / Cecilia Rodriguez Milaneś -- Bitterness / Virgil Suárez.
Subject American literature -- Cuban American authors.
Cuban Americans -- Literary collections.
Cuba -- Literary collections.
Added Author Poey, Delia.
Suárez, Virgil, 1962-
ISBN 1558851607 alkaline paper
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