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Author / Creator:Zamora, Javier, author.
Uniform title:Poems. Selections
Imprint:Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2017]
Description:x, 94 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11329821
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ISBN:9781556595110
1556595115
Notes:"A Lannan literary selection"--back cover.
Summary:"This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-button political issues of immigration and border crossings"--
Table of Contents:
  • To Abuelita Neli
  • Saguaros
  • from The Book I Made with a Counselor My First Week of School
  • Second Attempt Crossing
  • El Salvador
  • On a Dirt Road outside Oaxaca
  • Cassette Tape
  • To President-Elect
  • Pump Water from the Well
  • Instructions for My Funeral
  • Montage with Mangoes, Volcano, and Flooded Streets
  • The Pier of La Herradura
  • Dancing in Buses
  • How to Enlist
  • Documentary
  • ARENA
  • "Don Chepe"
  • Disappeared
  • Rooftop
  • This Was the Field
  • Politics
  • Aftermath
  • For Israel and María de los Ángeles
  • Crybaby
  • Abuelita Neli's Garden with Parakeets Named Chepito
  • I Don't Want to Speak of "Don Chepe"
  • How I Learned to Walk
  • Postpartum
  • "Ponele Queso Bicho" Means Put Cheese on It Kid
  • Then, It Was So
  • Mom Responds to Her Shaming
  • Alterations
  • Aubade
  • Prayer
  • Abuelita Says Goodbye
  • Let Me Try Again
  • Citizenship
  • San Francisco Bay and "Mt. Tam"
  • Doctor's Office First Week in This Country
  • Vows
  • Nocturne
  • Deportation Letter
  • Seeing Your Mother Again
  • Exiliados
  • June 10, 1999
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author