Agua Santa Holy Water

by Mora, Pat

• ISBN13: 9780807068281
• ISBN10: 0807068284
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Beacon Pr

Summary

From a tribute to Frida Kahlo to advice from an Aztec goddess, award-winning Chicana poet Pat Mora explores the intimate and sacred spaces of borderlands. With warmth, joy, and humor, she delicately transforms often bitter struggles through many voices - a revolutionary, a laborer, a domestic worker and border patrol guard, a widow. Mora pays tribute to women - women who nurture, resist, and bridge cultures on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and throughout the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
The Loving Strip	p. 3
Ofrenda for Lobo	p. 5
Oasis	p. 6
Ballena	p. 8
Another Brown Man	p. 9
The Shadow	p. 11
Corazon del corrido	p. 12
Aurelia: Moon Jellies	p. 19
A Child, a Child	p. 20
Mama Spell	p. 22
Braided	p. 24
The Weight of a Life	p. 25
The Lure	p. 26
Feeding the Winds	p. 27
La dulceria	p. 29
A River of Women	p. 31
It May Be Dangerous	p. 35
Sly Woman	p. 37
Cuidado	p. 39
Spring Shining	p. 40
There Was a Woman	p. 42
Nunca, nunca	p. 43
Descent into Boca del Lagarto	p. 45
The Man	p. 47
Dear Frida	p. 49
January in Cincinnati	p. 53
Litany to the Dark Goddess	p. 57
Coatlicue's Rules: Advice from an Aztec Goddess	p. 60
Malinche's Tips: Pique from Mexico's Mother	p. 64
Consejos de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe: Counsel from the Brown Virgin	p. 71
Llantos de la Llorona: Warnings from the Wailer	p. 74
Agua negra	p. 81
Napping Sunday Afternoon	p. 84
The Official Line	p. 85
Los brazos del rio	p. 86
Fe Tzotzil	p. 88
Tzimin Chaak	p. 91
Tornabe	p. 93
Depression Days	p. 95
Cuban Revolutionary	p. 97
Dona Feliciana	p. 99
Mangos y limones	p. 101
Desert Mockingbird	p. 103
La Migra	p. 104
Pescadote	p. 109
Metamorfosis	p. 111
Sueno de miel	p. 114
El Rio Grande	p. 115
Let Us Hold Hands	p. 116
Un cuento de agua santa	p. 118
Agio Nero	p. 122
Cuentista	p. 127
Notes	p. 129
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