Goodbye, Mexico Poems of Remembrance / edited by Sarah Cortez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cortez, Sarah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American poetry--21st poetry.

North America--Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexico.

Mexican-American Border Region--Poetry.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexico--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, 2014.

Summary:

This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence. Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San Miguel You see their silhouettes along the stone wall or arm in arm below the glow of garden lights huddled like foothills, earth you could plant maize in. Cowboy hats and serapes, the smell of beer and cinnamon churros. You think of family and language how the music rolls through your hips to the sweat behind your knees. How it rushes through you, to a place you still don't know. --Lois P. Jones

Contents:

Mexico: cradle of myth

Mexico: catch-basin of desire

Mexico: always glistening

Mexico: prayer blossoming a path

Mexico: labyrinth of labyrinths

Mexico: a broken place.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68003-005-1

OCLC:

1142968631