Waubonsee Community College

Paper dance, 55 Latino poets, edited by Victor Hernández Cruz, Leroy V. Quintana, and Virgil Suarez

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poetry

Paper dance

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edited by Victor Hernández Cruz, Leroy V. Quintana, and Virgil Suarez

55 Latino poets

A collection of poetry from 55 Latinos/as. The first and still the most complete anthology of the best U.S. Latino and Latina poets from diverse origins in the Latin world: Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. "Readers should be prepared for weeping, laughing, and awe" (Harvard Review). Alvarez, Baca, Cervantes, Espada, Firmat, Gonzalez, Medina, Pau-Llosa, Rios, Rodríguez, Saenz, Villanueva, et al

Shame ; L.A. prayer / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Storm windows ; Dusting ; Homecoming / Julia Alvarez -- from Poem VI ; from Poem XXIII / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Leavings ; Abuelo Leopoldo sneaks a bite of cream cheese ; For El Niño on his arrival in the United States / Sandra M. Castillo -- Pulling the muse from the drum ; Herald of Cocos (I) / Adrian Castro -- Morning geography ; Women talk of flowers at dusk / Rosemary Catacalos -- The poet is served her papers ; Blue full moon in witch ; From the cables of genocide / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- The Latin deli: an ars poetica ; The medium's burden ; My grandfather's hat / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- On being alone: Berkeley, 1969 ; Rehearsals for the wreck / Lucha Corpi -- From Mesa Blanca ; Mesa Blanca ; Time zones / Victor Hernández Cruz -- Photograph from Berlin ; Summer storm ; Witness / Silvia Curbelo -- The lover of a subversive is also a subversive ; Coca-Cola and Coco frío ; La tumba de Buenaventura Roig / Martín Espada -- Who is going to tell me? ; Oshun's love poem ; Ocha / Sandra Maria Esteves -- Nobody knows my name ; Ghost writing ; Bilingual blues / Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- La curandera ; When living was a labor camp called Montgomery / Diana Garcia -- Day of the Dead ; Red line / Guy Garcia -- Outline for a Cuban folk-dance ; Prague, 1924 / Lourdes Gil -- Mestiza legacy ; Telling ; It happens while presidents play golf / Magdalena Gómez -- The recurring dream of the snakes as a gift for my aching shoulder ; How? ; Homage to Lucian Blaga ; Memory of the hand / Ray Gonzalez -- B.C., before Clinton ; "Damn!" / César A. González-T. -- Rain lantern ; Tropical weather report ; The structure of a dream / Daniel del Valle Hernández -- Southern California nocturne (circa 1964) ; The sea during springtime / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Sorting Miami ; Finding home ; An unexpected conversion / Carolina Hospital -- El Elvis ; Family ; The spy / Wasabi Kanastoga -- Juana la Loca ; Christmas at the health care center on the west mesa ; Discourse of the severed head of Joaquin Murieta / E.A. Mares -- Hit and run ; Discovering America / Demetria Martínez -- Standard time: novena for my father ; Variations on Omar Sharif / Dionisio D. Martínez -- Unlucky cracks ; The Sierras ; The chase / Victor Martínez -- Ethnic poetry ; Ode ; The old man / Julio Marzán -- Calle de la Amargura ; Philadelphia ; Cuba / Pablo Medina -- EcologicHumanitarianIsm ; The pigeon squawk / Jesús Papoleto Meléndez -- Artista Cubano ; Sly woman / Pat Mora -- Amantes sin tiempo ; Lorca in hell / Gean Moreno -- Repetitions ; Summer of the body ; Mariano, the air / Elías Miguel Muñoz -- Frutas ; Mulata ; Carlos Alfonzo / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- The first rock and roll song of 1970 ; Ode to Witch Liberty ; Nighttime sunshine mind game / Pedro Pietri -- Aye que Maria Felix (or Maria was no virgin) ; Post-colonial contemplations / Naomi Quiñonez -- Poem written during one of my yearly visits from California ; Don Chuey / Leroy V. Quintana -- Kid Hielero ; Combing my hair in the hall / Alberto Alvaro Ríos -- Poetry of holy water ; Bird language ; Death of the lady slipper / Diana Rivera -- Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird (1940) ; The dream ; Self-portrait with cropped hair (1940) / Margarita Luna Robles -- They come to dance ; Bethlehem no more ; Deathwatch / Luis J. Rodríguez -- Muchacha (after Jamaica) / Cecilia Rodríguez-Milanés -- Again I find him ; Marilyn Monroe Indian / Leo Romero -- Uncles (who lie still and perfect) / Benjamin Alire Sáenz -- For Kathy who likes happy endings ; Alba ; For Carrie / Deborah Salazar -- Izquierdo ; Jicotea/turtle / Virgil Suarez -- Letter to Ti ; Marked ; Compliments / Carmen Tafolla -- Night in Oaxaca ; The girl in the treehouse / David Unger -- English con salsa ; Where you from? ; The hands / Gina Valdez -- New York City mira mira blues ; Cante jondo ; Ronda / Gloria Vando -- Why my mother's teeth remained in Cuba ; First breakfast / E.J. Vega -- Delicious death ; The wind ; An act of creation / Alma Luz Villanueva -- Scene from the movie Giant ; Haciendo apenas la recolección / Tino Villanueva -- Pony ; Trans Pacific / Rafael Zepeda