A love story beginning in Spanish : poems / by Judith Ortiz Cofer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 1952-2016.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 67 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2005]

Contents:

1 Beginning in Spanish

Beans: An Apologia for Not Loving to Cook 3

Before the Storm 5

Lessons of the Past 7

A Theory of Chaos: October 1962 9

Dominoes: A Meditation on the Game 11

from A Sailor's Wife's Journal 13

Siempre 19

The Poet's Work 21

Here Is a Picture of Me 22

That Old Tune 23

First Job: The Southern Sweets Sandwich Shop and Bakery 25

Notes for My Daughter Studying Math on the Morning of a New Year 28

Where You Need to Go 30

2 El Amor, El Azul, a Hibiscus

Rice: An Ars Poetica 35

The Superstition Poems

The Gift of a Knife 37

The Pleasures of Fear 38

The Lesson of the Tongue 40

La Fulana 42

Black Silk Shirt 43

The Arms of a Good Woman 44

Old Women in Their Rooms 45

The Cruel Season 46

Alms Outside the Package Store, Peachtree Street 48

I Give You the Hibiscus 49

Hispanic Barbie with Accessories 50

Bed-Making in a Foreign Country 52

Found Poem: Charm for the Love of a Woman 53

Saint, Hair, Water 54

The Art of Scrying: A Poem for My Birthday 55

The Calculus of Freedom 56

Seizing the Day 57

To Understand El Azul 58

The Names of the Dead: An Essay on the Phrase 59

Gifts 61

3 A Love Story

El Amor: A Story Beginning in Spanish 67.

ISBN:

0820327425

OCLC:

57579180