Drive : the first quartet / Lorna Dee Cervantes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cervantes, Lorna Dee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Poetry.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Drive: the first quartet

Drive

Place of Publication:

San Antonio, Tex. : Wings Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This five-part collection of poems ranges from highly political to gently playful and personal.

Contents:

Cover

Front Flap

Copyright

Contents

How Far's the War?

For My Ancestors Adobed in the Walls of the Santa Barbara Mission

In the Waiting Room

Coffee

Bananas

Portrait of a Little Boy Feeding a Stray in Sarajevo

At the Fish House

"How to Explain Paintings to a Dead Hare"

Ten One-Line Poems to America

For Love, For 9-11

"We Have a Country of Words"

9:50 am

12:03 pm

American Haiku

Coca Cola

Blood: Black Burned Oil of the Race

Sangre: Petról negro de la raza 'humado

Murder

Corky's First Elegy

Corky's Next Elegy

After the Wake

Untitled

On Why I Boycotted Cinco de Mayo

The News

On Columbus Day

Chaya: V

Californium: III - On Saving Hans Bethe

Atole

From the Bus to E.L. at Atascadero State Hospital

BIRD AVE

Oda a las Gatas

Pachucando

Astro-no-mía

Summer Ends Too Soon

Tasco

The Barking Dogs of México

Agua Prufunda

A Baldemar Gomez

Whore

Black and Blue

Cheap Shot

Prom

Crackling Fingers

California Plum

To David Without Goliath, From Penny Glass

Cream

Time Stands Still

The White World of the Blind

Who Honestly Cares About the Next American Idol Winner?

On the Poet Coming of Age

Art Books

Tierra y Libertad

"The Journey is Over"

Collages: Una Despedida to the Summer Youth Leadership Institute

Poet's Progress

PLAY

A Note on Play

PLAY one

How Little You Know the Poor

Forgiveness Like a One-Winged Dove

Pure Sunlight, Unfiltered, Unviolated

Not Here

Copper Kettle

Baby Doll Dress

I Lead the Night in Their Shadows

Manzanita

The Golden Pears of the Christ Child's Mother

Childhood

Childhood, II

"Good Writing Makes Me Cry,"

The Garage Light, Foggy and Dust-licked.

She Was Holding Impossible Dreams Like They Were a Collection of Sea Shells

PLAY two

Monkey

The Heart in a Cage

Frank Sonata by Candlelight

Migration

Opening

Hope

Old Shoes

Jambalaya

Say What You Mean

Thelonious Monk

Crying Trumpets

Blackbird

Tattoo Nation

Indigenous

Dancing

Tiny Shadows of Leaves

Multiplication

Shut Eyes

Overcome

Searching For A Thought

PLAY three: Journal of A Cuckold's Year

Disruption in the World is Green

Yo-Yos and Peanut Butter

Juice

You Make Me Wonder What the Rest of Your Poetry is Like

She Hated Men in Discount Underwear

Axe Heads Hanging Off the Tops of Capitalized Letters, Like the Letter "T" for Example

Bananas and Peanut Butter

Just A Postcard From My Dreams

Sultry

Faded Embrace

With A Thickness

Thundering Beat of Hummingbird Wings

Infarction

Jelly Doughnuts On Your Breath

Hat

Obtuse

Benevolence

Lazy Raccoon

Childhood, III

Untitled, II

Perplexed

Ghosts

Letters to David: An Elegiac Mass in the Form of a Train

Note to David

First Station

Second Station

Third Station

Fourth Station

Fifth Station

Sixth Station

Seventh Station

Eighth Station

Ninth Station

Tenth Station 230

Eleventh Station

Twelfth Station

Thirteenth Station

Fourteenth Station

Hard Drive

Part I: Striking Ash

Love in New York

Driving Home From An All Night

Striking Ash

From the Heights of Macchu Picchu

Sleeping Around

1984

Whole Lotto Love

Part II: On Line

To Line on Our Forty-Somethingth Birthday

Titillating

Why I Don't Date White Men

For He Who Wants to Know

Son: Book I

I. Line of the Giant

I Was Born, But Not Quite News

Part III: Con una poca de gracia

Portrait of the Poet at 33

First Beating

Now.

Homing

Water Bearer

Isla Mujeres

A un Desconocido

Irresistible

Canto 38

Suite: Fall

Socorro

Archaeology

In An Eagle's Nestling

Author's Note

About the Author

About the Artists

Back Flap

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60940-068-2

OCLC:

670430574