Emplumada / Lorna Dee Cervantes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cervantes, Lorna Dee.

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--California--Poetry.

Mexican American women.

California.

Genre:

Fiction.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

68 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1981]

Summary:

"Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes's first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

I. Uncle's first rabbit

Cannery town in August

The anthill

Lots: I

Lots: II

Meeting Mescalito at Oak Hill cemetery

Beneath the shadow of the freeway

For Edward Long

For Virginia Chavez

Crow

Communication

Caribou girl.

II. The Prayer pressed between the waves

Four portraits of fire

Starfish

In January

Spiders

From where we sit: Corpus Christi

An Interpretation of dinner by the uninvited guest

Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person could believe in the war between races

To my brother

Freeway 280

Barco de refugiados

Refugee ship

Poema para los Californios Muertos

Oaxaca, 1974

Visions of Mexico while at a writing symposium in Port Townsend, Washington.

III. This morning

Café Solo

Beetles

For all you know

Como lo siento

The Body as braille

Moonwalkers

Shells

Before you go

For John on the Cape

Oranges

Emplumada.

Glossary of Spanish words and phrases.

Notes:

American Book Award, 1982

Other Format:

Online version: Cervantes, Lorna Dee. Emplumada.

ISBN:

0822934361

9780822934363

0822953277

9780822953272

OCLC:

7277032