| Description |
xxxvii, 554 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
English and Spanish. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-545). |
| Contents |
Part One, Poetry: My mother pieced quilts; I should be trying to start some new begonia plants; For Matisse; Untitled; Museum pieces / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- Familiares en la pieza oscura; Family members in the dark room; Ritual de mis senos; Ritual of my breasts; Mis pies; My feet; Los zapatos rojos; The red shoes; La mesa de billar en New Bedford, Massachusetts; The pool table in New Bedford, Massachusetts; Estados Unidos; United States / Marjorie Agosin -- Katakalos; The history of abuse, a language poem; Keeping the vigil; A vision of La Llorona / Rosemary Catacalos -- Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person could believe in the War between the Races; Beneath the shadow of the freeway; For Virginia Chavez; Astro-no-mia; Pleiades from the cables of genocide / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Romance negro; Dark romance; Los poemas de Marina, I. Marina Madre, II. Marina Virgen, III. La hija del diablo, IV. Ella (Marina ausente); The Marina Poems, I. Marina mother, II. Marina virgin, III. The devil's daughter, IV. She (Marina Distant); Dos; Diecisiete; Voces; Two; Seventeen; Voices / Lucha Corpi -- Poet; A language of survival; Porcupine love; Heart pieces; El Beso / Veronica Cunningham -- To Walt Whitman; A Walt Whitman; Arise, chicano!; Tonantzin Morena; "Si amas, perdona-si no amas, olivada ..."; Una manana cualquiera; Lo inaceptable; One ordinary morning; On the unacceptable; Invention of the camel / Angela de Hoyos -- Snapshots in an album; Where childhood lives; Translation; The ballad of San Isidro; You call me by old names; Bodega / Rhina Espaillat -- Autobiography of a Nuyorican; Love affair with a welfare hotel; Sistas; Raising eyebrows; Amor negro; Gringolandia; Ocha; Poem to my therapist; Religious instructions for young casualties / Sandra Maria Esteves -- A stranger came; Mutation comes by water; Last port; This, my last thought / Lourdes Gil -- Hell's kitchen; A visit to west New York; Dear Tia; On the last stretch of the journey; For a sister here / Carolina Hospital -- A fragile heritage; The man who saved the fish; Rite of passage; Over a baroque portal: the meow of the offspring; The obligatory verse; On the altars of Tikal / Iraida Iturralde -- Epitaph; All body and no soul; From between our legs; For women who need strength / Natashia Lopez -- Ms. Bourgeois; The angel of the millennium (accident at the nuclear plant) / Olga Elena Mattei -- Mi Madre; The eye of Texas; Curandera; Tigua elder; Picturesque: San Cristobal de las Casas; La Dulceria; Dona Feliciana; Tornade; The young Sor Juana; Mothers and daughters / Pat Mora -- Anima; La Llorona; Hesitations; No shelter; El Salvador; Good Friday / Naomi Quinonez -- Antepasados/ancestors; Lolita Lebron; Multi-media witch; Woman pirate; International woman's day / Nina Serrano -- Right in one language; MotherMother; Naci la hija; Marked; Alli por la Calle San Luis; Woman-hole; In Guatemala / Carmen Tafolla -- To a beautiful illusion/Bella ilusion (danza); Elliot's sunset; For Ellen / Luz Maria Umpierre -- Divorce; Latchkey kid; At my father's funeral; Cry uncle; Legend of the Flamboyan; Commonwealth, common poverty; Faith / Gloria Vando -- April; June; October; December; Abril; Junio; Octubre; Diciembre / Anita Velez Mitchell -- Entering; The origin of weaving; Precarious; Poncho: ritual dress; De Palabrarmas; From Palabrarmas / Cecilia Vicuna -- El Mercado en San Antonio where the tourists trot; Legacy; Daily progress; Equinox; Omniscience / Evangelina Vigil-Pinon -- An act of creation; Trust; Indian summer ritual / Alma Luz Villanueva -- Abortion; Perverted villanelle / Marie Elise Wheatwind -- Above Aguilar; Shade; Summer's rage; Open gate; Peatmoss; Original seeding; Piles of sublime; A willing abdication; Our instructions / Bernice Zamora -- Part Two, Essay: La Conciencia de la mestiza/towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldua -- (Re)vision of an American journey / Roberta Fernandez -- Art in America con acento / Cherrie Moraga -- Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Part Three, Fiction: From Paradise / Elena Castedo -- From Eulogy for a brown angel / Lucha Corpi -- Margarita / Beatriz de la Garza -- Buenaventura and the fifteen sisters; Cimarron / Margarita Engle -- Three day flight / Paula Maria Espinosa -- Zulema / Roberta Fernandez -- Marta del Angel / Linda Feyder -- Cimarrona / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- A day in New York / Nora Glickman -- A remedy for heartburn / Aurora Levins Morales -- From In search of Bernabe / Graciela Limon -- "Happy birthday" / Nicholasa Mohr -- Monologue of the Spanish gentleman / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- "Green? or Red?" / Mary Helen Ponce -- The burning / Estela Portillo Trambley -- And this blue surrounding me again / Bessy Reyna -- Growing; The moths / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Part Four, Drama: Beautiful senoritas / Dolores Prida -- Bibliography -- Translators, artists and critic -- Permissions. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Hispanic American authors.
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Hispanic American literature (Spanish) -- Women authors.
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Hispanic American women -- Literary collections.
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Hispanic Americans -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- Women authors.
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| Added Author |
Fernández, Roberta.
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Franco, Jean, 1924-2022
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| ISBN |
1558851100: $19.95 |
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