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This River Here : Poems of San Antonio.

San Antonio Poet Laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometown? the city of her ancestors for the past three centuries? in poems that celebrate its history as a cosmopolitan multilingual cultural crossroads. Discover San Antonio's corazón in Tafolla's poetry, accompanied by historic and c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tafolla, Carmen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wings Press, 2014.
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  • Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; A Note on the Use of Italic Type ; Dedication ; I. Listen to the voices in this breeze, your ancestors, the trees the river that remembers . . .; This River Here; There've always been rattlesnakes; Survival Instructions: Summer, 103 ; Warning; Wind; City of Wings; Aquí; River Music; Bongo Joe; El Mercado; Allí Por la Calle San Luís; Fragile Flames; San Antonio; Our Abuelos, the Trees; Seeds; Feeding You; II. The Mestizo Molcajete's Mezcla; Both Sides of the Border; De Volada Insurance, faster than a flying chancla.
  • San Anto's Mezcla MágicaWhat to Say to Your Chicano Lover of 25 Years; Burying the Hatchet; Spreading My Mexican Blood; Threshold; At the Table of cariño; Woman Weaving Words; Angelina, Anastacia & Emma: A Trialogue of Place; III. A Site to See Deep Time; Witte Museum Calls a Meeting of Scholars and Artists to Discuss Deep Time in South Texas; Sitting at the Ice House; Big Red and Barbacoa; Something About the Clouds; Mitote Spirits: Spurs Fans on the Streets; Mission San José; Searching for Mission San Jose; La Llorona's Tattoo; Counter Clock Wise; Secret Laughter; marked.
  • San Antonio is a Young Yanaguana WomanGlossary; Acknowledgments; About the Author; About the Publisher ; Back Cover.