The Latin deli : prose and poetry / Judith Ortiz Cofer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 1952-2016.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puerto Rican women--Literary collections.

Puerto Rican women.

Women--Puerto Rico--Literary collections.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii , 170 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1993.

Summary:

Prose and poetry of a particular immigrant experience and also of such universal themes as the pains, confusions, and wonders of growing up.

Contents:

American history

Not for sale

Twist and shout

By love betrayed

Orar: to pray

Dividir: to divide

Respirar: to breathe

Volar: to fly

Early mystery

Fever

Lesson of the sugarcane

Legion of dark angels

Changeling

Absolution in the new year

From the Book of dreams in Spanish

Witch's husband

Letter from a Caribbean island

Guard duty

Purpose of nuns

Game

Lesson of the teeth

They never grew old

Nothing wasted

Women who love angels

To Grandfather, now forgetting

My grandfather's hat

Blood

Life of an echo

Juana: an old story

Campesino's lament

Magdalenas

Olga

Dear Joaquin

Lydia

Vida

Paciencia

Old women

Corazon's Cafe

How to get a baby

Advanced biology

Paterson Public Library

Story of my body

chameleon

Myth of the Latin woman: I just met a girl named Maria

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

Medium's burden.

Notes:

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, 1994.

ISBN:

9786613586889

9781280491658

1280491655

9780820342719

0820342718

OCLC:

794493878