My own true name : new and selected poems for young adults, 1984-1999 /
More than sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, include such titles as "The Young Sor Juana," "Graduation Morning," "Border Town 1938," "Legal Alien," "Abuelita Magic," and "In the Blood."
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Houston, Texas :
Piñata Books, Arte Público Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Digitalia Hispánica |
Table of Contents:
- Blooms
- A secret
- Mango juice
- First love
- Maybe
- Silence like cool sand
- Ode to pizza
- For Georgia O'Keefe
- The young Sor Juana
- The desert is my mother
- El desierto es mi madre
- Poinsettia
- Graduation morning
- Family ties
- University avenue
- Teenagers
- Match
- Mothers and daughters
- Thorns
- Picturesque: San Cristóbal de las Casas
- 1910
- Border town: 1938
- Fences
- Peruvian child
- Petals
- Los pétalos
- Immigrants
- Los inmigrants
- Abuelita's ache
- Two worlds
- Elena
- Learning English: chorus in many voices
- Mush
- Sugar
- Same song
- No substitutes
- To my son
- Cissy in a bonnet
- Goblin
- Good-byes
- Tigua elder
- Roots
- Desert women
- Tejedora maya
- Bribe
- Leyenda
- Abuelita magic
- Village therapy
- Los ancianos
- En la sangre
- In the blood
- Puesta del sol
- Maestro
- Pushing 100
- Oral history
- Tomás ive ra
- Strong women
- Señora X no more
- Gentle communion
- Foreign spooks
- A voice
- Tree-wisdom
- Bosque del Apache
- Senior citizen trio
- Now and then, America.