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One-legged dancer / Pamela Uschuk ; illustrated with photo emulsion prints by Lynn Watt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Uschuk, Pamela.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free trade--Social aspects--Mexico--Poetry.
- Free trade.
- Mexico--Poetry.
- Mexico.
- Southwestern States--Poetry.
- Southwestern States.
- Canada. Treaties, etc. 1992 Oct. 7--Social aspects--Mexico--Poetry.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (105 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Antonio, TX : Wings Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Focusing on the United States' Desert Southwest, this compilation of poetry celebrates its flora, fauna, customs, and people. An insightful collection, it includes an interesting trope that runs throughout the book, implying a comparison between native dance and traditional notions of poetic meter.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; DREAMING THE SOUTHWEST; What You Thought Was Empty; Lying In a Hammock No Wind Rocks; Disturbing Dreams and their Cure; Dream Time; Brave Mr. Buckingham; Overachiever; Giving Up Eating Light; Adobadora; Dream Catcher; Sueños y Amor; DUE SOUTH; Southwest Pieta; WITH ONE EAR TO THE RAIL; She Waits For Amerigo; At The Baranca de Cobre; ¿A Dónde Vas?; Beggar; The Horse Appears As Any Cow Would; Keeping In The Sour Milk; Arturo y Esmeralda; Collision; Going Second Class; ONE-LEGGED DANCER; Sharing Bread With Marta; In Memory of the Acteal Massacre
- In The Domain Of The Serpent Jaguar Kings Summer Afternoon Without Rain; Leó-te, Hello and Goodbye; St. Francis of Atitcatlan; One-legged Dancer; Climbing to the Moon; Facing the Center of Commerce and Prophecy in the Dead City; Looking South Along the Avenue of the Dead; At The Museo Antropológico; ALONG THE PATH BURNED BY THE FALCON; Along the Path Burned by the Falcon; El Día De Los Reyes Magos; In the Afternoon Shade of Birds and Poetry; Breaking Images With Enrique Enriquez, Mazhua Poet; While You Ride to the Baranca; Third World Shade; El Cristo del Ciclon; In Puerto Peñasco
- Snorkeling in the Sea of Cortez At the Edge of the Volcanic Sea; Baptismal; acknowledgments; About the Author in 2013; About the Illustrator; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Poems.
- "New poetry from International Poetry Prize Winner"--front cover.
- ISBN:
- 1-60940-029-1
- OCLC:
- 817883740
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