Raven eye : poems / by Margo Tamez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tamez, Margo, author.

Series:

Sun tracks ; v. 60.

Sun tracks ; v. 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican-American Border Region--Poetry.

Mexican-American Border Region.

North America--Mexican-American Border Region.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

79 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2007]

Summary:

Covers topics ranging from brutality against women to lovefrom industrial pollution to hopes for children, but the subject is consistent: the effect of marginalization on people, places and the planet.

Contents:

Who will return lamps to the smelted sky?

The rattle of bones for hours. She wakes up to watch the sky ; Sex blood ; This twisted storm of wind ; After colliding, raven recalls : where we all begin ; Ceremony of peyote ; Bird boy of the blue light ; Playing hangman ; M mountain ; The birth of thought woman ; Hanging from red cord ; Addiction to the dead ; Corn girl dawn girl ; Whipping pole ; The unpredictable shoves ; The breath moves corn girl ; No time in this storm ; The digging hole ; Psychedelic ; What good is a chore ; Drinking under the moon she goes laughing ; Smooth pink blossoms ; Flesh offerings

This medicine. Take this medicine ; What she knows ; The first being she saw was the tree ; Corn girl ; Raven.

Notes:

Willa Literary Award for poetry, 2008.

Other Format:

Online version: Tamez, Margo. Raven eye.

ISBN:

081652565X

9780816525652

OCLC:

70836788