This River Here : Poems of San Antonio

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tafolla, Carmen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

San Antonio (Tex.)--Poetry.

Violence--Poetry.

Local Subjects:

American poetry--20th century.

San Antonio (Tex.)--Poetry.

Violence--Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Wings Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

San Antonio Poet Laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometown ? the city of her ancestors for the past three centuries ? in poems that celebrate its history as a cosmopolitan multilingual cultural crossroads. Discover San Antonio's corazón in Tafolla's poetry, accompanied by historic and contemporary photographs that convey its enduring sense of place. The little river that has charmed so many rises at ?the biological hub of the northern half of this hemisphere" (Dr. Karen Stothert) in a spring that Frederick Law Olmsted described as being ?among the gems of the natural world." A century ago,

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; A Note on the Use of Italic Type; Dedication; I. Listen to the voices in this breeze, your ancestors, the trees the river that remembers . . .; This River Here; There've always been rattlesnakes; Survival Instructions: Summer, 103°; Warning; Wind; City of Wings; Aquí; River Music; Bongo Joe; El Mercado; Allí Por la Calle San Luís; Fragile Flames; San Antonio; Our Abuelos, the Trees; Seeds; Feeding You; II. The Mestizo Molcajete's Mezcla; Both Sides of the Border; De Volada Insurance, faster than a flying

San Anto's Mezcla Mágica What to Say to Your Chicano Lover of 25 Years; Burying the Hatchet; Spreading My Mexican Blood; Threshold; At the Table of cariño; Woman Weaving Words; Angelina, Anastacia & Emma: A Trialogue of Place; III. A Site to See Deep Time; Witte Museum Calls a Meeting of Scholars and Artists to Discuss Deep Time in South Texas; Sitting at the Ice House; Big Red... and Barbacoa; Something About the Clouds; Mitote Spirits: Spurs Fans on the Streets; Mission San José; Searching for Mission San Jose; La Llorona's Tattoo; Counter Clock Wise; Secret Laughter; marked

San Antonio is a Young Yanaguana Woman Glossary; Acknowledgments; About the Author; About the Publisher; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-60940-402-5