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Literary San Antonio /

"An anthology of literature from and about San Antonio, Texas, from its early days to the present, including poetry, fiction, journalism, history, political writings, and drama"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Milligan, Bryce, 1953- (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Drama
  • Driving wheel / Sterling Houston
  • Fiction: from Ambrosia de Letinez, or The first Texian novel / Anthony Ganilh
  • The enchanted kiss / O. Henry
  • Postcript: O. Henry and the bridge at the heart of the city / Bryce Milligan
  • Saint's day / Josephina Niggli
  • A jury of his peers / Jay Brandon
  • From Remember Ben Clayton / Stephen Harrigan
  • Loteria: la rosa / Mary Guerrero Milligan
  • from Wanderer springs / Robert Flynn
  • Patriotism / Nan Cuba
  • I explain myself / Geoff Rips
  • from The truth
  • La chola / Norma E. Cantu
  • from Big Red tequila / Rick Riordan
  • Live and let live / Claude Stanush
  • Bien pretty / Sandra Cisneros.
  • Poetry: Arise, Chicano! / Angela De Hoyos
  • Hermano
  • How to eat crow on a cold sunday morning
  • A lesson in semantics
  • This river here / Carmen Tafolla
  • El mercado / farmers' market
  • San Antonio is a young Yanaguana woman
  • Right in one language
  • Como embrujada / Evangelina Vigil
  • Was fun running 'round descalza
  • Por la calle Zarzamora
  • Will you hold my bullet, please? / Naomi Shihab Nye
  • West side
  • The rider
  • Because of libraries we can say these things
  • Frankly
  • Secret missions / Robert Bonazzi
  • Once in a blue moon
  • Intermezzi
  • Eos and the train horns / Bryce Milligan
  • San Antonio nights
  • Trusting steel
  • Homesteaders (in the introduction) / Rosemary Catacalos
  • La casa
  • Learning endurance from Lupe at the J&A Ice House
  • Swallow wings
  • Listen, querido, they're playing our song, or, Summer ritual with a poet friend
  • High sky / Wendy Barker
  • Inheritance
  • Trash
  • A mother's October / Mariana Aitches
  • Winter solstice
  • Fishing for light / Deborah Paredez
  • Crape myrtle, 1943
  • St. Joske's
  • Bustillo drive grocery
  • Poem for the King William dancers
  • Earl Abel's / Jim LaVilla-Havelin
  • In the courtyard
  • From some trees
  • Cicadas / Carol Coffee Reposa
  • Great horned owl
  • Alamo Plaza at night
  • Bar America / Jacinto Jesus Cardona
  • Chicharras
  • Pan dulce
  • Avocado Avenue
  • To chucho would have you believe / Celeste Guzman Mendoza
  • About faith
  • Crooked pinky
  • Girl strolls down Nogalitos Street / Amalia Ortiz
  • These hands which have never picked cotton
  • The night Ram died
  • Sundays after breakfast: a lesson in cotton picking / Laurie Ann Guerrero
  • Esperanza tells her friends the story of La Llorona
  • Sundays after breakfast: a lesson in speech
  • The man who gives bad directions in downtown San Antonio / Jenny Browne
  • There's a slow green river I've been living by
  • Journalism & political essays: The Mexican question in the Southwest / Emma Tenayuca
  • Letter from San Antonio: No retreat! No surrender! / Jan Jarboe Russell
  • The meaning of Chicano / Ricardo Sanchez
  • Bridging cultures / Cary Clack
  • From a Comecrudo dancing song / Bryce Milligan
  • Historical writing: Naming San Antonio / Frank W. Jennings
  • The wrong side of the river: from old Villita / Maury Maverick Sr.
  • An unexpected fiesta / Zebulon Pike
  • The fall of the Alamo / Andrea Castanon Villanueva (Madam Candelaria)
  • After the Alamo ... San Antonio, 1836-1842 / Antonio Menchaca
  • from A life crossing borders / Santiago Tafolla
  • from A journey through Texas / Frederick Law Olmsted
  • San Antonio de Bexar: an historical sketch / Sidney Lanier
  • The yellow rose of Texas: decision at the Alamo / Steven G. Kellman