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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.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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