Currents from the dancing river : contemporary Latino fiction, nonfiction, and poetry / edited by Ray González.
1994
PS508.H57 C87 1994
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Title
Currents from the dancing river : contemporary Latino fiction, nonfiction, and poetry / edited by Ray González.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0151236542 :
9780151236541
0156001306 (pbk.)
9780156001304 (pbk.)
9780151236541
0156001306 (pbk.)
9780156001304 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994.
Description
xiv, 572 p. ; 25 cm.
Exhibited
1994 Poets House Showcase
Call Number
PS508.H57 C87 1994
Summary
Collection of 135 works exploring the impact of Latino culture on American society.
Formatted Contents Note
Salsa / Enrique Fernández
Chiles / Arturo Islas
Puertoricanness ; Immigrants ; Kitchens ; 1930 / Aurora Levins Morales
Let's begin the day ; Prayer to the child of Prague ; Courtship of darkness / Luis Omar Salinas
The lotto / Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
Bringing her back ; Lunes de revolución ; Floating / Silvia Curbelo
Paying respects ; Taking the air ; Ariadne seven years later / Rosemary Catacalos
The black virgin ; The witch's husband / Judith Ortiz Cofer
What we don't know about the climb to heaven / Julio Marzán
La calle del niño perdido ; Doing the tarantella with Lola Montez ; Open letter to my friends / Richard Garcia.
A case of mistaken identities : the human body / Rafael Campo
Father's Day / Luis Alberto Urrea
On the day they buried my mother
; This is not the place where I was born / Miguel Piñero
Ghost trap ; Puddles / Gloria Anzaldúa
The cassettes ; Notes on other Chicana & Chicano inventions ; Rodney King, the black Christ of Los Angeles and all of our white sins, May 1, 1992 ; Zoot suit on a bed of Spanish rice ; Milagros & angels ; Mariachi drag star / Juan Felipe Herrera
Adonde vive Díos? / Kleya Forte-Escamilla
Tears on my pillow / Helena María Viramontes
Nicanor, Saturday ; How the mouth works ; The Vietnam wall / Alberto Rios
Mother of shrines ; Mother of the long good-bye ; Mother of the historical tree / Rosa Maria Arenas
Psalm for your image ; Sonnet for Mars ; Sonnet for Angelo Monterosa / Jack Agueros
Look on the bright side / Dagoberto Gilb
The graduation / Marisella Veiga
Gravity ; The seed must kill ; A letter from my mother / Victor Martinez
Miguelito, Miguelito ; Backward facing man / Leo Romero
from The devil in Texas / Aristeo Brito.
The day Rito died / Mary Helen Ponce
Black hair / Gary Soto
Dear Frida ; The itch / Pat Mora
Seals ; Swirling lines ; Minas de cobre / Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Love and hunt in the dark room ; Inquisitors, dead and in power : their use of torture
/ Ruth Warat
The marriage of the prostitute in Puerto Rican folklore / Rafael Barreto-Rivera
The bird who cleans the world ; How the serpent was born ; The disobedient child / Victor Montejo
Casimiro Mendoza, the improviser / Rowena A. Rivera
The miracle / Jose Sequeira
Mambo love poem ; Autobiography of a Nuyorican / Sandra Maria Esteves
Malinche's rights / Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Sonnets of dark love / Francisco Alarcon
Across these landscapes of early darkness ; Cole Porter ; Pavane for daddy longlegs / Dionisio Martinez
Maya / Alma Luz Villanueva
The last dream / Ed Vega
The awakening ; Meetings with a saint ; Jewel Lake / Orlando Ramírez
Misunderstanding Prufrock, with some Cummings / Omar S. Catañeda.
El rojo esqueleto and la negra esqueleta conduct my examination ; The third visit of el rojo esqueleto / Robert Navarro
Banners ; Fire and water / Andrés Rodríguez
The quiet women ; To the police officer
; Reflection on el train glass / Luis J. Rodriguez
And on all your children / Leroy Quintana
Homecoming / Ruben Martinez
Mexico's children / Richard Rodriguez
Winter of a rose / Pablo Medina
Thirst / Margarita Tavera Rivera
Miami during the Reagan years / Virgil Suarez
Strange planet / Elías Miguel Muñoz
Baskets of water / Cristina Garcia
The house on the burial mound ; Wallace Stevens in Havana ; A love note / Jorge Guitart
Guijuelo 1968 ; Riding on the #5 / Bertha Sanchez Bello
My grandfather's eye / Jack Lopez
Lost in translation / Ilan Stavans
White birch ; The hidalgo's hat and a hawk's bell of gold ; The other Alamo / Martin Espada
La Ermita (the Hermitage) : El Centro, Gomera ; Gathering the wild figs : Vizcaina, Gomera ; In my house : Wasiniypi / Emilia Paredes.
Rattlesnake dreams / Ray Gonzalez
from Albuquerque / Rudolfo Anaya
I never even seen my father / Nicholasa Mohr
Shabbat Shalom / David Unger
from "Angelitos negros : a salsa ballet" ; Taos Pueblo Indians
/ Miguel Algarín
Lucky alley / Alejandro Murguia
Voz de la gente ; Mi tío baca el poeta de socorro ; Imagine my life / Jimmy Santiago Baca
I want to write an American poem / Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Undocumented anguish ; Fugue ; Abstract / Lucha Corpi
Al-Haram ; Problems with hurricanes ; Igneris / Victor Hernandez Cruz
Santa Cruz ; Flatirons ; Shooting the wren / Lorna Dee Cervantes
The first day of spring ; The night is out of sight / Pedro Pietri
Ending poem / Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales.
Chiles / Arturo Islas
Puertoricanness ; Immigrants ; Kitchens ; 1930 / Aurora Levins Morales
Let's begin the day ; Prayer to the child of Prague ; Courtship of darkness / Luis Omar Salinas
The lotto / Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
Bringing her back ; Lunes de revolución ; Floating / Silvia Curbelo
Paying respects ; Taking the air ; Ariadne seven years later / Rosemary Catacalos
The black virgin ; The witch's husband / Judith Ortiz Cofer
What we don't know about the climb to heaven / Julio Marzán
La calle del niño perdido ; Doing the tarantella with Lola Montez ; Open letter to my friends / Richard Garcia.
A case of mistaken identities : the human body / Rafael Campo
Father's Day / Luis Alberto Urrea
On the day they buried my mother
; This is not the place where I was born / Miguel Piñero
Ghost trap ; Puddles / Gloria Anzaldúa
The cassettes ; Notes on other Chicana & Chicano inventions ; Rodney King, the black Christ of Los Angeles and all of our white sins, May 1, 1992 ; Zoot suit on a bed of Spanish rice ; Milagros & angels ; Mariachi drag star / Juan Felipe Herrera
Adonde vive Díos? / Kleya Forte-Escamilla
Tears on my pillow / Helena María Viramontes
Nicanor, Saturday ; How the mouth works ; The Vietnam wall / Alberto Rios
Mother of shrines ; Mother of the long good-bye ; Mother of the historical tree / Rosa Maria Arenas
Psalm for your image ; Sonnet for Mars ; Sonnet for Angelo Monterosa / Jack Agueros
Look on the bright side / Dagoberto Gilb
The graduation / Marisella Veiga
Gravity ; The seed must kill ; A letter from my mother / Victor Martinez
Miguelito, Miguelito ; Backward facing man / Leo Romero
from The devil in Texas / Aristeo Brito.
The day Rito died / Mary Helen Ponce
Black hair / Gary Soto
Dear Frida ; The itch / Pat Mora
Seals ; Swirling lines ; Minas de cobre / Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Love and hunt in the dark room ; Inquisitors, dead and in power : their use of torture
/ Ruth Warat
The marriage of the prostitute in Puerto Rican folklore / Rafael Barreto-Rivera
The bird who cleans the world ; How the serpent was born ; The disobedient child / Victor Montejo
Casimiro Mendoza, the improviser / Rowena A. Rivera
The miracle / Jose Sequeira
Mambo love poem ; Autobiography of a Nuyorican / Sandra Maria Esteves
Malinche's rights / Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Sonnets of dark love / Francisco Alarcon
Across these landscapes of early darkness ; Cole Porter ; Pavane for daddy longlegs / Dionisio Martinez
Maya / Alma Luz Villanueva
The last dream / Ed Vega
The awakening ; Meetings with a saint ; Jewel Lake / Orlando Ramírez
Misunderstanding Prufrock, with some Cummings / Omar S. Catañeda.
El rojo esqueleto and la negra esqueleta conduct my examination ; The third visit of el rojo esqueleto / Robert Navarro
Banners ; Fire and water / Andrés Rodríguez
The quiet women ; To the police officer
; Reflection on el train glass / Luis J. Rodriguez
And on all your children / Leroy Quintana
Homecoming / Ruben Martinez
Mexico's children / Richard Rodriguez
Winter of a rose / Pablo Medina
Thirst / Margarita Tavera Rivera
Miami during the Reagan years / Virgil Suarez
Strange planet / Elías Miguel Muñoz
Baskets of water / Cristina Garcia
The house on the burial mound ; Wallace Stevens in Havana ; A love note / Jorge Guitart
Guijuelo 1968 ; Riding on the #5 / Bertha Sanchez Bello
My grandfather's eye / Jack Lopez
Lost in translation / Ilan Stavans
White birch ; The hidalgo's hat and a hawk's bell of gold ; The other Alamo / Martin Espada
La Ermita (the Hermitage) : El Centro, Gomera ; Gathering the wild figs : Vizcaina, Gomera ; In my house : Wasiniypi / Emilia Paredes.
Rattlesnake dreams / Ray Gonzalez
from Albuquerque / Rudolfo Anaya
I never even seen my father / Nicholasa Mohr
Shabbat Shalom / David Unger
from "Angelitos negros : a salsa ballet" ; Taos Pueblo Indians
/ Miguel Algarín
Lucky alley / Alejandro Murguia
Voz de la gente ; Mi tío baca el poeta de socorro ; Imagine my life / Jimmy Santiago Baca
I want to write an American poem / Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Undocumented anguish ; Fugue ; Abstract / Lucha Corpi
Al-Haram ; Problems with hurricanes ; Igneris / Victor Hernandez Cruz
Santa Cruz ; Flatirons ; Shooting the wren / Lorna Dee Cervantes
The first day of spring ; The night is out of sight / Pedro Pietri
Ending poem / Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales.
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