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When living was a labor camp / Diana García.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.A664 W48 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- García, Diana, 1950-
- Series:
- Camino del sol
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--Poetry.
- Mexican Americans.
- Children of migrant laborers.
- Mexican American women.
- Mexican American women--Poetry.
- Children of migrant laborers--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 102 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- "I write what I eat and smell", says Diana Garcia, and her words are a bountiful harvest. Her poems color the page with the vibrancy and sweetness of figs, the freshness of tortillas, and the sensuality of language.
- In this, Garcia's first collection of poems, she takes a bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there. Writing from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, she catapults the reader into the lives of the campesinos with their daily joys and sorrows.
- Bold, political, and familial, Garcia's poems gift the reader with a sense of earth, struggle, and pride -- each line filled with the sounds of agrarian music, from mariachi melodies to repatriation revolts. Embodied with such spirit, her poems rise with the convictions of power and equality.
- Contents:
- Camp Observations xi
- An Orchard of Figs in the Fall 1
- Cotton Rows, Cotton Blankets 3
- An Orchard of Figs in the Fall 4
- When You Didn't Have to See to Believe 5
- Memorizing the Center of Time 6
- Squaring the Names 7
- La Curandera 10
- La Llorona 11
- The Creek That Bears the Salmon 13
- La Madrugada 14
- When Living Was a Labor Camp Called Montgomery 15
- When living was a labor camp called Montgomery 17
- Tisica 19
- Repatriation 21
- Operation Wetback, 1953 22
- Softball and Tomato Fields 23
- She Tends Bar 24
- El Porvenir 25
- Turns at the Dance 26
- Green Corn Season 27
- Serpentine Voices 29
- Serpentine Voices 31
- From Silence 31
- Huelga 32
- The Farmworkers' Daughters 33
- Emiliano Zapata Eyes 34
- The Love Affairs 36
- The Girlfriends 37
- The Old Married Couple 38
- The Hearings 40
- El Movimiento 42
- Metaphoric Cockroaches 43
- Coda: Levantate, no pidas mas perdon... 44
- What the Curandera Knows 45
- Turning Trays 46
- Breasting the Rogue 47
- Valley Fever 49
- Other Marias 50
- Occupant: Blue Roof Apartments 52
- Pressing Realities 53
- Quality Poor 54
- Raisins in Summer 55
- The Clog of Her Body 57
- Posteriors for Posterity 59
- Breasting the Rogue 61
- A Matter of Control 63
- On the First Day She Made Birds 65
- It's Not about Race 69
- Las Rubias 71
- Finding a Way 74
- It's Not about Race 75
- These Old Rags 77
- We're All Alike, You Know 79
- Gleanings 81
- El Comal: My Grandfather's Griddle 83
- Gleanings 85
- Settling 86
- Heartlands 88
- When Sounds Ring True 89
- Milksnakes and Chocolate Lilies 90
- If I Trust Myself 91
- He Who Is Like... 92
- This Year's Cycle 93
- San Diego Aged 94
- Catalina Eddies 95
- Runa Pacha 96
- This Yearning Season 97.
- ISBN:
- 0816520437
- OCLC:
- 42967996
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