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Author Sáenz, Benjamin Alire.

Title The book of what remains / Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Publication Info. Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  811.54 SAENZ    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  811.54 SÁE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  811 SAENZ    Check Shelf
Description vii, 125 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Book of war and living. Meditation on living in the desert no. 1 ; Confessions: my father, hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 2 ; Good man is hard to find ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 3 ; I approach Mr. Max about visiting Bigger Thomas in jail ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 4 ; Knowledge: the hand of another ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 5 ; What to do with Lenin's body ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 6 ; Philosophy of work (an essay) ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 7 ; Comforts of the neighborhood ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 8 ; Prayer in the garden -- Book of eschatologies. Prayer in the garden ; Ruined cities of my broken, broken heart ; Prayer in the garden -- Book of what remains. Meditation on living in the desert no. 9 ; After the dying ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 10 ; Meditations on music, Joseph McCarthy, and my grandfather ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 11 ; How in the night (and the meaning of your life) ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 12 ; Arriving at the heart of tragedy ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 13 ; Translating the universe, or Morning of the lunar eclipse ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 14 ; Last summer in the garden ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 15 ; What I have to sing about ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 16 ; What remains ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 17 ; True and perfect sound ; Last meditation on living in the desert.
Subject Mexican-American Border Region -- Poetry.
Mexican Americans -- Poetry.
ISBN 9781556592973 paperback alkaline paper
1556592973 paperback alkaline paper
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