The wind shifts : new Latino poetry / edited by Francisco Aragón ; foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aragón, Francisco.

Series:

Camino del sol

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Hispanic American authors.

American poetry.

Hispanic Americans--Poetry.

Hispanic Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xx, 266 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2007]

Contents:

Rosa Alcala

Cante Grande 12

The Silversmith's Wife & the Chestnut Vendor 13

Migration 14

Class 15

The Sixth Avenue Go-Go Lounge 17

Patria 19

/ Francisco Aragon

Cafe Central 23

Lunch Break 24

Bridge over Strawberry Creek 24

Ernesto Cardenal in Berkeley 25

Poem with Citations from the O.E.D. 26

Portrait with Lines of Montale 27

Grid 28

Far Away 29

Al Viejo Mundo 30

/ Naomi Ayala

Papo, Who'd Wanted to Be an Artist 33

It Was Late and She Was Climbing 34

This Breathless Minute 34

My Brother Pito 35

For "S" 36

Hole 37

Within Me 37

Thus 38

Griot 39

Horses 40

/ Richard Blanco

Mother Picking Produce 42

Shaving 42

Varadero en Alba 43

Chilo's Daughters Sing for Me in Cuba 45

What Is Not Mine 46

Crossing Boston Harbor 46

Mexican Almuerzo in New England 47

Time as Art in The Eternal City 48

In Defense of Livorno 49

Somewhere to Paris 50

/ Brenda Cardenas

Empty Spaces 53

Report from the Temple of Confessions in Old Chicano English 53

Cartoon Coyote Goes Po-Mo 54

from Sound Waves: A Series 55

Medicine 57

Our Language 59

Song 61

/ Albino Carrillo

De las Mujeres Tristes 63

Animal Time 63

La Invencion del Televisor Segun Huitzilopochtli 64

H. Writes His Dead Amigos for the Sake of Clarity 64

Lament for the chilero from Las Cruces 65

/ Steven Cordova

Testing Positive 72

Sissy Boy 72

Across a Table 73

Meditations on the Jordaan 74

Daydream to You 74

In Your Defense 75

Pecking Orders 76

Of Sorts 77

At the Delacourt 78

Driving toward Lake Superior 79

/ Eduardo C. Corral

Night Gives to Things the Turning Beauty of Leaves 81

Ditat Deus 82

There Is a Light that Never Goes Out 82

Pear 83

To a Mojado Who Died Crossing the Desert 84

Monologue of a Vulture's Shadow 85

Midnight Coffee: Rafael Rodriguez Rapun, 1936 86

Julio Galan: Misael: Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media on Canvas, 2001 86

Poem after Frida Kahlo's Painting The Broken Column 87

/ David Dominguez

Pig 91

Fingers 91

Mexicali 92

Empty Lot 93

Framework 94

Roof 95

Chicago Title 96

Cowboy 97

Elwood 98

/ John Olivares Espinoza

Aching Knees in Palm Springs 101

Contemporary American Hunger 102

Learning Economics at Gemco 103

Las Cucarachas 104

The City of Date Fruits and Bullet Wounds 105

The Story My Grandfather Told My Mother a Few Months before His Death 107

I Go Dreaming, Raking Leaves 108

Network of Bone 109

/ Gina Franco

Everything Goes Down a Changeling 112

Darkling 112

Velvet 113

These Years, in the Deepest Holes 115

The Walk Like Old Habits 116

The Earth Without 118

/ Venessa Maria Engel-Fuentes

Cebolla 123

Como Park, 1975 124

Hermanita, Hermanota 124

Unit 502 126

Glass Grapes 126

Record-Keeping 127

Funeral 128

Pinkie 129

Insomnia 130

/ Kevin A. Gonzalez

The Night Tito Trinidad KO'ed Fernando Vargas 132

Cultural Stakes; or, How to Learn English as a Second Language 133

Cultural Stud 136

The Night Bernard Hopkins KO'ed Tito Trinidad 138

To Roberto Clemente 139

Cultural Silence; or. How to Survive the Last American Colony 139

/ David Hernandez

Dysfunctional 142

Exploded View 143

Wile E. Coyote Attains Nirvana 144

Dog with Elizabethan Collar 145

Ropes 146

Suburban Story 146

Whitman Dying 147

St. Mary's Hospital 148

Man on an Island 149

Dear Spanish 150

/ Scott Inguito

Guadalupe Beach 152

Main Street 154

Papa George 154

Parade 156

Bats Trace Their Droppings Painting Words 159

I Have Been Resisting, Due to Bad Knees, 'Falling into the Work of the Living' 160

/ Sheryl Luna

Her Back, My Bridge 163

Slow Dancing with Frank Perez 164

Learning to Speak 165

Two Girls from Juarez 166

Poesia de Maquiladora 167

Pity the Drowned Horses 168

An Atheist Learns to Pray 169

The Colt 170

/ Carl Marcum

We Drove Some Chevys 172

Barrio Brisbane Gives Witness 176

First Snow 178

Notes from the Art Institute 179

/ Maria Melendez

Remedio 181

In Birute's Camp 182

Nude Sonnet 183

Tonacacihuatl: Lady of Our Flesh 184

An Illustrated Guide to Things Unseen 185

A Secret Between Lady Poets 186

Has it been whispered all along? 188

/ Carolina Monsivais

Writing the Circle of My Life by Remembering My Great-Grandmother 191

What I Remember about Almost Drowning in a Lake Somewhere in Kentucky 192

Early Signs 192

How the Eye Works 193

Phone Intake 194

The Interpreter 195

Granada 195

Seasons of Writing 197

From Houston Back to El Paso 198

The Funeral 199

/ Adela Najarro

San Francisco 201

My Mother, Sex, and Dating 202

Throughout New York City 203

Between Two Languages 205

Playing around Cesar Vallejo 206

My Mother's High Heel Shoes 207

/ Urayoan Noel

Ballade of a Boy 210

Kool Logic 211

Barrio Speedwagon Blues 213

Death and Taxes 215

Cave Painter Blues 216

/ Deborah Paredez

Stella 218

Mobile, Alabama, 1963 218

The Gift, Uruguay, 1970 219

Sonnet for Rilke in February 220

The Fire 221

The Trumpets Raised 222

Avocados 223

The Early March 224

Nostos 225

/ Emmy Perez

Solstice 227

Irrigation 227

When Evening Becomes Stellar 228

One Morning 229

Swimming 230

La Aurora 231

Ars Poetica 231

History of Silence 232

/ Paul Martinez Pompa

How to Hear Chicago 237

After Words 237

Busted Lullaby 238

3 Little Pigs 238

Police Dog 239

Night 239

Want 240

Bones 241

While Late Capitalism 242

Nightshift 242

/ Lidia Torres

Three Keys 245

Visiting the Dead 246

Listening for Her 246

Two Guavas 247

A Weakness for Boleros 248

Daphne as a Drum 249

Spirit Boat 250

Adrift 251

Poema en un carro publico 251

Blackout 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [261]).

ISBN:

0816524939

9780816524938

OCLC:

71223282