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The Latin deli : prose and poetry / Judith Ortiz Cofer.
LIBRA PS3565.R7737 L37 1995 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 1952-2016.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puerto Rican women--United States--Literary collections.
- Puerto Rican women.
- Women--Puerto Rico--Literary collections.
- Women.
- Puerto Rico.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Literary collections.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 170 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [1995]
- Summary:
- Cofer tells readers of the women's lives that entangled with hers in El Building in Patterson, New Jersey. A community transplanted from what they now view as an island paradise, these Puerto Rican families yearn for the colors and tastes of their homeland. As they carve out their lives as Americans, their days are filled with drama, success and tragedy.
- Contents:
- The Latin deli : an ars poetica
- From the book of dreams in Spanish : stories and poems
- American history
- Not for sale
- Twist and shout
- By love betrayed
- From "some Spanish verbs"
- Orar : to pray
- Dividir : to divide
- Respirar : to breathe
- Volar : to fly
- An early mystery
- Fever
- The lesson of the sugarcane
- A legion of dark angels
- The changeling
- Absolution in the new year
- From the book of dreams in Spanish
- The witch's husband
- Nada
- Letter from a Caribbean island
- Guard duty
- The purpose of nuns
- The game
- The lesson of the teeth
- They never grew old
- Nothing wasted
- Women who love angels
- To grandfather, now forgetting
- My grandfather's hat
- Blood
- The life of an echo
- Juana : an old story
- The campesino's lament
- Las magdalenas
- Olga
- Dear Joaquín
- Lydia
- Vida
- Paciencia
- Old women
- Corazón's Café
- The medium's burden : other narratives and poems
- How to get a baby
- Advanced biology
- The Paterson Public Library
- The story of my body
- The chameleon
- The myth of the Latin woman : I just met a girl named María
- Saint Rose of Lima
- Counting
- Unspoken
- Who will not be vanquished?
- Hostages to fortune
- To a daughter I cannot console
- Anniversary
- 5:00 A.M. : writing as ritual
- The medium's burden.
- Notes:
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 1994
- ISBN:
- 0393313131
- 9780393313130
- OCLC:
- 32691442
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