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Meditación Fronteriza : Poems of Love, Life, and Labor

"This poetry collection explores life along the Texas-Mexico border through intimate portraits and familiar legends, creating a compendium of Chicanx identity in all its complexity. The poems span transnational spaces, memories of place, and family. It manifests both personal and political life...

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Autor principal: Cantú, Norma E., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Title page; Copyright; Epigraph; Contents; Gracias!; I. SONG OF THE BORDERLANDS; Canto a la tierra fr onteriza; Song of the Borderland; She Was a Bobolo Grandmother; Hablando y soñando; Talking Dreaming; Tratando de ser; Trying to Be; Border Bullets; The Killing Path; Song of the Borderlands; Border Triptych; Terra Incognita; South Texas-July 2014; The Wall; II. READING THE BODY; Reading the Body; Decolonizing the Mind; Purple Fugue; A Love Poem, Alas; Lovers; Still to Come; Migraine; The Body/My Body; Capricho; Las hijas de Juárez; III. IN THE COUNTRY OF ART
  • In the Country of ArtAstucia: A Santa Elena; Cunning: To Santa Elena; A Breath. A Sigh. A Passing.; Salvavidas; A Sor Juana; Winter Birds; Seasoned Traveler; Succumb to Weather; Kansas City Shift; Poetry and Wine; Insomnia in Madrid; IV. MIEL DE MESQUITE; Miel de mesquite; El día de la coneja; Fiestas de diciembre; La Llorona Considers the State of Tortillas; Bullfight; Platicando con Manuela; Forjando el destino; Of Math, Words, and Mrs. Watkins; Railroad Worker; Órale! A Retirement Poem; El mejicano y la chicana; Sylvia, Pato, and the Hippie; Los Cartoneros
  • En honor de su cumpleaños: Corrido para Laura RendónV. GOING HOME; Going Home; Cantando llego; Olmec Heads; On My Altar; Despedidas; Greetings in White; Hablando de la vida y la muerte; Speaking of Life and Death; Forty-Three; Home; My Mother's Hands; Living in Dangerous Times; VI. MEDITACIÓN FRONTERIZA; Meditación fronteriza I, 2000; Meditación fronteriza II, 2005; Meditación fronteriza III, 2015; About the Author