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A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying /
Filled with the beauty and complexity of the everyday - a pot of beans, a goat carcass, embroidered linens, a grandfather's cancer - the author journeys through the inherited fear of creation and destruction. The histories of South Texas and its people unfold, including the dehumanization of me...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preparing the Tongue
- One Man's Name : Colonization of the Poetic, i ; Sundays after Breakfast : A Lesson in Speech ; Bluing the Linens ; Las Lenguas ; Summer ; One Man's Name : Colonization of the Poetic, ii ; A Meal for the Tribe ; One Man's Name : Colonization of the Poetic, iii ; Yellow Bird ; Little Mexican Pot ; Turnips ; Babies under the House ; One Man's Name : Colonization of the Poetic, iv ; One Man's Name : Colonization of the Poetic, v ; Roosters : Homecoming ; Esperanza Tells Her Friends the Story of La Llorona ; Ode to El Cabrito ; Stray Cat ; How I Put Myself through School ; Morning Praise of Nightmares, one ; Morning Praise of Nightmares, two
- Sundays after Breakfast : A Lesson in Cotton Picking ; Put Attention ; One Man's Name : Colonization of the Poetic, vi ; Breasts ; Ode to My Boots ; Ode to a Skein of Red Embroidery Thread ; One Man's Name : Colonization of the Poetic, vii ; Wooden Box ; Black Hat ; One Man's Name : Colonization of the Poetic, viii ; Mr. G's Collection ; Cocooning ; Babies under the Skin ; Pinedale, CA ; Like Jesus ; When I Made Eggs This Morning ; Stones ; My Mother Woke a Rooster ; My Mother Asks to Be Cremated ; My Mother Will Take a Lover ; Ancient Algebra ; One Man's Name : Colonization of the Poetic, ix ; The Alchemy of Mothering ; Early Words for My Son ; On Blinding ; Birth Day.