On this side of the desert : poems / by Alfredo Aguilar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aguilar, Alfredo, 1991- author.

Series:

Wick poetry first book series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 55 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This debut book of poetry describes the experience of being raised in southern California as a child of Mexican immigrants in the shadow of the borderlands. Just as the borderlands are defined by the desert, so, too, are its inhabitants defined by their families, their culture shaped from the clay of the Sonoran desert and given life by the nourishing water of their ancestors. In these poems, the desert is recognized for what it truly is-a living, breathing body filled with both joy and pain"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I Woke Up in the Wilderness

When Born Wailing into the World

Tonight Your Mother Is Running with Coyotes

On This Side of the Desert

On a Ranch My Father Broke Horses

After Three Beers My Tia Talks about the Border

My Mother Drove Us into Tijuana for Dentistry

In the Second Month

Borrando la Frontera

My Mother Says Her Childhood Home Is Haunted

When la Migra Caught My Father

In Boyhood

As a Child I Watch My Mother Sit in Limbo

Mexico-Tenochtitlan

The Boy Considers Being Born Elsewhere

Childhood Is a Realm

The First Time I Went to the Cinema

The Monsters My Parents Warned Me about Speak in Their Defense

My Father Makes Me Hold a Hen

Avowal

Family History

I Returned to the Altar

Passing

That Year

Revision

Yellow House

Sueno

Portrait of My Younger Brother with Birds

I'm Told My Younger Siblings Look up to Me

A Translation of the Word Corazon

Mama Chelo Stands at the Concrete Washboard

Piecing Inheritance

You Watch Your Father Leap

Weld

Through the Reeds.

ISBN:

9781606354063

160635406X

OCLC:

1154520139