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Coiled serpent : poets arising from the cultural quakes & shifts of Los Angeles / edited by Neelanjana Banerjee, Daniel A. Olivas, Ruben J. Rodriquez.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Poetry.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- California--Los Angeles.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 371 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Fernando, CA : Tia Chucha Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- The Coiled Serpent anthology features the vitality and variety of verse in and around Los Angels. This collection is more about range than representation, voice more than volume. Los Angeles has close to 60 percent people of color, 225 languages spoken at home, and some of the richest and poorest persons in the country. With an expansive 502.7 square miles of city (and beyond, including a massive county of 4,752.32 square miles), L.A. poetry draws on imagery, words, stories, and imaginations that are also vast, encompassing-a real "leaves of grass." Well-known poets include Laurel Ann Bogen, Wanda Coleman, Kamau Daáood, Dance Gioia, track Kato Kiriyama, Rubén Martinez, Bill Mohr, Holly Prado, and Amy Uyematsu. Many strong new voices, also makes this a well-rounded collection for any literary class, program, bookstore, or event. The image of the coiled serpent appears in various forms in mythologies throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, India, and America. In pre-conquest times, Quetzalcoatl-the Precious Serpent-served as a personification of earth-bound wisdom, the arts and eldership in so-called Meso-America, one of seven "cradles of civilization" that also includes China, Nigeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and Peru. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Luis J. Rodriguez 11
- Introduction: City of Angels, City of Poets
- Ricardo Lira Acuña 15
- Intimate Set
- Thomas Adams 17
- Breadcrumbs
- Tanzila Ahmed 19
- Iftar Streets
- Haze
- Nelson Alburquenque 21
- Body Against Me
- Eggs on City Limits
- Rosie Angelica Alonso 23
- Recipe for a Tattoo
- Li Yun Alvarado 25
- In Los Angeles
- Melissa F. Alvarado 26
- Fifth Grade
- Karina Oliva Alvarado 27
- By the Tree
- Rafael F J Alvarado 29
- Untitled Prison Poem, #30
- E. Amato 30
- Earthquake Weather
- William Archila 32
- Three Minutes with Mingus
- Erika Avón 34
- Ashes
- Danny Baker 35
- Inalienable Right to Genuine Autonomy Nietzcshe and Kierkegaard
- Andres Bermejo 37
- Night, Sleep, Death, and the Stars
- Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo 38
- Ode to Pan Dulce
- The Boys of Summer
- Laurel Ann Bogen 40
- Bine Smoke and Steel
- Hollywood Hills Noir
- F. Douglas Brown 43
- What I Know About Watts
- Love Letter to Rashida Jones
- Jeffrey Bryant 47
- A Veteran's Day (2014)
- Ruthie Buell 49
- Artichokes
- Don Kingfisher Campbell 51
- Ventura Highway
- Luís Campos 52
- Andrés
- Jessica M. Wilson Cardenas 53
- Being Human
- Anaid Carreno 55
- Snake Tongue: Lengua de Culebra
- Iliana carter 56
- Mygration
- Jessica Ceballos 60
- Two dreams
- Joaquin lives in Los Ángeles
- Adrian Ernesto Cepeda 64
- Traffic buying a familiar refrain
- Her moon over Los Angeles
- Angel Cerritos 66
- La Calaca
- Robert Chambers 68
- Poem for Lost Angels
- Lisa Cheby 69
- Guests in a Guileless Land
- When a Sonnet Loses Track of the Seasons
- Gabreal Cho 71
- Breast
- Chiwan Choi 72
- If 100, then 150
- Marcus Clayton 75
- Schizophrenic on the Steps of Bank of America
- Wanda Coleman 76
- Sonnet for Austin
- Rafa Cruz 77
- My Mind on the 239
- Iliana Cuellar 78
- Canto in Two Lenguas
- Yago S. Cura 79
- Los Angeles Country Jail Sonnets, #5
- Watts Shadormas, #1
- Art Currim 81
- It is Upon Us
- Kamau Daáood 82
- Los Angeles
- Doren Damico 83
- Unfurl My Spirit
- Woman of Colors
- Carol V. Davis 87
- Driving Late at Night in Hollywood with a Foreign Visitor
- Iris De Anda 88
- Terra firma
- Seven Dhar 89
- When 1 Smoked Pencils
- David M. Diaz 91
- An addiction
- Kim Dower 93
- Fontanel
- Workout
- Sharif Dumani 98
- I Went and Saw You Again, Tonight
- Christian Elder 100
- Queer
- Seth Elpenor 102
- From California...
- Francisco Escamilla (Bus Stop Prophet) 103
- Graf-ight
- Boyle Heights
- Yvonne M. Estrada 106
- The Coyotes in the Living Room
- My Name on Top of Yours, #14
- Eric Eztli 108
- A Different Doorway
- Rich Ferguson 109
- When Called in for Questioning
- A Worry Bead, a Blessing
- Jamie Asaye Fitzgerald 112
- The Night Nurse
- The Voyage of Comparative Snapshots of My Father's Brain
- Angela Rose Fiores 114
- Like My Mother
- Michael C. Ford 116
- Closing Prayer
- Mariana Franco 117
- Night 1
- Jerry Garcia 118
- Interstate 60
- Downwind from a Man Sleeping in His Own Puddle
- Nicolai Garcia 121
- Did You Know Sea Otters Hold Hands When They Sleep So They Don't Drift Away From Each Other?
- A Long Drive
- Marisa Urrutia Gedney 124
- City Hall Try
- Permiso
- Dana Gioia 128
- Meet Me at the Lighthouse
- Liz gonzález 129
- Buñuelos
- William A. González 130
- In the Valley
- Dorothy Randall Gray 132
- Sandy in the Streets
- Robert Gribbin 134
- The Man in 702
- Peter J Harris 135
- Baby Talk
- Evidence
- Hazel Clayton Harrison 137
- Sonny
- Kevin James Hearle 138
- Water and Power
- The Politics of Memory
- Adolfo Y. Hernandez 141
- Tamale hustle
- Raul Herrera 142
- Earthquakes
- To Quentin Tarantino
- William Ryan Hilary 147
- How to Sell Your First Screenplay and Become Rich
- Poems from the Bargain Bin
- Martens Hitt 150
- Child on a Floor with Marble
- Big Thunder
- Jen Hofer 152
- Resolve
- Alexandra Hohmann 153
- The Brown Girl in Her
- This Small Thing
- Boris Salvador Ingles 156
- All the characters
- Evergreen head stones
- Gerda Govine Ituarte 160
- Part 1, 44 Days
- Poster Boy
- Traci kato-kiriyama 162
- Rain
- Pilgrimage to the Meaning of Ash
- Douglas Kearney 165
- ING
- Karen Kevorkian 167
- The Proofreader Raises Hands to Eyes Without Anyone Seeing
- Our Lady of Sorrows or is it Solitude
- Doug Knott 169
- Home Movie in Green and White
- The Laughing Wall
- Haley Laningham 171
- A Year of Being Both Gay and Religious
- The Valley and Family Tectonic
- Teka Lark 174
- Choices of Heat
- Random Violence
- Anthony A. Lee 179
- Memory of Abel
- No Moon in L.A.
- Janice Lee 183
- Kimberly Lieu 186
- Temple
- Mark Lipman 188
- The Price of Doing Business
- Jaime Lopez 190
- Love Me, Rain
- Robert Mäder-Kammer 191
- Mom's War Stories
- Karineh Mahdessian 192
- Here
- Return
- Ruthie Marlenée 194
- Christmas in Duarte
- Cuate, the Barrio Drunk
- Jeffery Martin 197
- The Poverty of Access
- Rubén Martínez 199
- "Contrabando y traicion": A Critical Karaoke
- Phoebe MacAdams 202
- February 14
- Rhiannon McGavin 203
- "L'Heritage"
- Elena minor 205
- Historia de un amor
- Singer, Not Song
- Penelope Moffet 207
- Cutlery
- Bill Mohr 209
- Real Dajs Off
- Complexities
- Alejandro Molina 211
- Border Crossing
- Henry J. Morro 213
- Boiling Rice
- Sybil Mosely 214
- A Clamor
- Majid Naficy 215
- Promenade at Dawn
- Santa Monica Farmers' Market
- Janet Nippell 217
- L.A. Rockabye
- Harry E. Northup 218
- Young Latino Writes in Her Journal
- East Hollywood 3
- Martin Ott 220
- Caves of Los Angeles
- California is Sinking
- Melinda Palacio 223
- Broken Bone Poem
- Rae Paris 225
- Uncle Kwanza: November 1
- Candace Pearson 227
- From the Permanent Collection
- From the Permanent Collection II
- Alice Pero 229
- Word Hummingbirds
- Desert Hot Springs
- Ramona Pilar 232
- Six Lines to Thirty Eight
- Jenuine Poetess 233
- Colors i have been
- Holly Prado 234
- Pursuit of Happiness
- I Need the Sanctified. I Need the Obvious
- Arturo Quiros 236
- Gasoline Dreams
- A. Razor 238
- If Bubba's Taxi Could Talk
- Ellen reich 240
- After the Rape
- Steven Reigns 241
- Morning, West Hollwood
- Luivette Resto 243
- Fingerprints on Tortilla
- The Kind of Woman
- Erika Reyes 246
- For My Best Friend
- Michael Reyes 247
- Math Quizes at Breakfast
- Atypical Love Poem
- Thelma T. Reyna 249
- Night Rituals
- Sophia Rivera 250
- To Make Yourself Yours
- Claudia Rodriguez 252
- On Being Butch
- Daniela Rodriguez 254
- A Temporary Whisper
- Norma Rodriguez 256
- L.A.: Story of a Traisplant
- Ramiro D. Rodriguez 258
- Dancing Through a Beating
- Trini Rodriguez (Matriz) 262
- Grown Men
- Jeff Rogers 264
- An L.A. Freeway Songbook
- What Grows Below Ground
- Conrad Romo 267
- Suciopath
- Jessica Romoff 268
- Not Knowing What a Protest Tastes Like
- For My Dear Naomi: Forever 16 Years of Age
- Melissa Roxas 272
- Returning
- Pogo Saito 274
- Highland Park, 2 am
- Abel Salas 276
- Talisman
- Alexandra Sanchez 278
- To My Absent Father
- Cathie Sandstrom 280
- Seven Tall Windows
- OK, L.A., You Win
- T Sarmina 283
- Motet Paul Bunyan
- When the Sun Sits
- Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut 287
- Survival Mask
- S. Pearl Sharp 288
- Easing Into An Avenue 50 Choir
- Mahtem Shiferraw 290
- Behind Walls & Glass
- Mike Sonksen (Mike the Poet) 292
- Blind Faith, Sour Grapes & Outside My Window
- Robert Stanley 294
- Wounded Angels
- Austin Straus 296
- The Good Woman of Watts
- Ambika Talwar 297
- Jetlag
- Tezozomoc 299
- Lake Tetzcoco
- Lynne Thompson 303
- Inter-mix'd
- Émigré
- Michael Torres 305
- After I'm Gone
- Anna Ureña 306
- What do you mean Beverly Hills doesn't need a drone?
- Amy Uyematsu 308
- The Sign Says "Closed for Business"
- Insomnia Entry No.
- 24
- Rolland Vasin (Vachine) 310
- Homie
- How?
- GusTavo Adolfo / Guerra Vasquez Vasquez, Guerra 312
- Hybrideities
- Vickie Vertiz 314
- 1 Postcard from My Father
- 2 Postcard to My Father
- Jennifer Lisa Vest 317
- When I was Born
- Estela Victoria-Cordero 319
- Concrete Love
- Antonieta Villamil 320
- Evening Snapshot
- America Malinche's Trade
- Celia Viramontes 322
- A Book All My Own
- Hunger
- Melora Walters 324
- Nature Poem, #5
- Hilda Weiss 327
- Before the Long Weekend
- The Poem
- Sammy Winston 329
- Sambas
- Terry Wolvertan 330
- Work
- Nancy Lynée Woo 331
- The Disappearing Act
- Reflection
- Gail Wronsky 334
- Dolphins Are People, Too
- And in green meadows raise a purple temple
- Tina Yang 337
- Why My Mother, the Bald Headed Nun, Rejected Me
- Beautiful
- Mariano Zaro 339
- My Mother Wakes Up Late.
- ISBN:
- 9781882688524
- 188268852X
- OCLC:
- 930256867
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