Floricanto Si! : A Collection of Latina Poetry

by Milligan, Bryce; de Hoyos, Angela

• ISBN13: 9780140588934
• ISBN10: 0140588930
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Este título combina la poesía de figuras literarias tan importantes como Sandra Cisneros, Julia Álvarez y Ana Castillo con el trabajo de una segunda generación de poetas del movimiento poschicano cuyas asombrosas y originales voces se están recién descubriendo. Los cuarenta y siete autores latinos declaman desde Estados Unidos, de Nueva York hasta Dakota del Norte. Sus raíces están en México y en el Caribe, Argentina, Perú, Brasil y El Salvador. Sin embargo, su trabajo está delimitado por temas culturales comunes, tales como la identidad, el bilingüismo, el machismo y la opresión política, y por alusiones recurrentes a la Virgen de Guadalupe, Sor Juana de la Cruz, Frida Kahlo, y otras figuras aztecas. Además, hay un espíritu de unidad aparente en las imágenes y las vibraciones sensuales de su lengua poética. íFloricanto sí! es una colección asombrosa que interpreta a América para sí misma de nuevas maneras.

Author Biography

Angela de Hoyos is the publisher and editor of M & A Editions and editor of Huehuetitlan, a journal of Chicano culture and poetry. Her work is often cited as among the first fruits of the Chicano literary movement.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	xvii
Bryce Milligan
Teresa Palomo Acosta
The corn tortilla	1	(3)
In the season of change	4	(1)
Today the pomegranate tree was in bloom	5	(1)
It is an exquisite fading away, I think	6	(3)
Marjorie Agosin
Marta Alvarado, profesora de historia	9	(2)
Marta Alvarado, History Professor	11	(2)
Umiliana Cardenas, pescadora de poetas	13	(1)
Umiliana Cardenas, Fisher-Poet	14	(1)
El credo de Titania	15	(3)
Titania's Creed	18	(3)
Julia Alvarez
Homecoming	21	(3)
The Dashboard Virgencita	24	(1)
Dusting	25	(1)
Audition	26	(3)
Gloria Anzaldua
Cihuatlyotl, Woman Alone	29	(2)
The Cannibal's Cancion	31	(1)
La curandera	32	(5)
Miriam Bornstein
Una pequena contribucion	37	(1)
To a Linguist Studying Discourse Strategies of Bilingual/Bicultural Students	38	(2)
Giannina Braschi, translation
Tess O'Dwyer
Las cosas que les pasan a los hombres en Nueva York!	40	(2)
The Things That Happen to Men in New York!	42	(2)
Norma E. Cantu
Trojan Horse	44	(2)
Decolonizing the Mind	46	(2)
Ana Castillo
You Are Real as Earth, y Mas	48	(2)
Ixtacihuatl Died in Vain	50	(2)
Someone Told Me	52	(1)
In My Country	53	(4)
Rosemary Catacalos
A Silk Blouse	57	(2)
At Home in the World	59	(1)
Insufficient Light	60	(1)
Morning Geography	61	(1)
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway	62	(4)
Bird Ave	66	(4)
On Love and Hunger	70	(1)
Emplumada	71	(1)
Lapiz Azul	72	(1)
Lisa Chavez
The Crow's Bride	73	(4)
Wild Horses	77	(3)
Sandra Cisneros
You Bring Out the Mexican in Me	80	(3)
With Lorenzo at the Center of the Universe, el Zocalo, Mexico City	83	(3)
Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity	86	(2)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Absolution in the New Year	88	(2)
Saint Rose of Lima	90	(2)
Who Will Not Be Vanquished?	92	(3)
Lucha Corpi, translations
Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto
Sonata a dos voces	95	(3)
Sonata in Two Voices	98	(3)
Plaza	101	(1)
Town Square	102	(1)
Recuerdo intimo	103	(1)
Intimate Memory	104	(1)
Silvia Curbelo
Photograph of My Parents	105	(2)
Balsero Singing	107	(1)
If You Need a Reason	108	(1)
Angela de Hoyos
La Vie: I Never Said It Was Simple	109	(3)
La Malinche a Cortes y Vice Versa	112	(2)
La Malinche to Cortes and Vice Versa	114	(2)
Lesson in Semantics	116	(1)
For Marsha	117	(2)
Rosario Ferre
Conceptual Art	119	(3)
Positivo	122	(2)
Positive	124	(2)
Negativo	126	(2)
Negative	128	(2)
Alicia Galvan
Skin	130	(1)
Penance?	131	(1)
Victoria Garcia-Galaviz
Frida in the Nude	132	(2)
Malintzin ... Marina	134	(1)
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
La Frontera	135	(1)
Domingo Means Scrubbing	136	(2)
Beggar on the Cordoba Bridge	138	(1)
Celeste Guzman
La tia que nunca come azucar	139	(2)
La cama de esperanza	141	(2)
Sheila Sanchez Hatch
Coatlicue	143	(2)
Notes on Why Misogyny Is an Art Form	145	(1)
The Burning God	146	(1)
Maya Islas
Viaje de una mujer sola	147	(2)
One Woman's Journey	149	(2)
Maria Limon
cuando se habla de nombres	151	(4)
Rita Magdaleno
Night Flight	155	(2)
The Leaving	157	(1)
Demetria Martinez
To Keep Back the Cold	158	(4)
Nativity: For Two Salvadoran Women, 1986--1987	162	(2)
Pat Mora
La Buena Pastora: The Good Shepherdess	164	(1)
Sonrisas	165	(1)
Bilingual Christmas	166	(1)
Curandera	167	(2)
La Migra	169	(2)
Elvia Padilla
The border, she is a woman	171	(1)
Woman as a River	172	(1)
Leave Her for Me	173	(1)
Anabella Paiz
Moon Phases	174	(2)
Deborah Paredez
A Cartography of Passions	176	(3)
Converging Boundary	179	(1)
Teresinka Pereira
Alabanza al gusano	180	(1)
Poem to Praise Worms	181	(1)
Cecile Pineda
On Seeing Vermeer's Geographer	182	(2)
Blue Madonna	184	(1)
Pina Pipino
White Scarves	185	(2)
Aliens	187	(1)
Nicole Pollentier
Keeper of the Word	188	(3)
always fishing	191	(1)
Beatriz Rivera
Lament of the Terrorist	192	(4)
Eliana Suarez Rivero
Three for Two	196	(2)
History Revisited: In Quebec, with a Friend	198	(1)
Carmen Gimenez Rosello
Frida	199	(2)
Plaza de Armas, Lima	201	(2)
Beverly Sanchez-Padilla
Mali	203	(6)
Raquel Valle Senties
Laredo	209	(2)
Carmen Tafolla
New Song	211	(2)
Porfiria	213	(4)
La Malinche	217	(3)
Mujeres del rebozo rojo	220	(2)
Sheila Ortiz Taylor
Marker	222	(3)
The Way Back	225	(4)
Gina Valdes
Spells	229	(2)
The Hands	231	(2)
Gloria Vando
Los Alamos	233	(2)
In the Crevices of Night	235	(1)
Cante Jondo	236	(2)
Promesas	238	(3)
Enedina Casarez Vasquez
Bad Hair	241	(4)
Evangelina Vigil-Pinon
apprenticeship	245	(1)
corazon en la palma	246	(1)
lo hondo	247	(1)
the hands of time	248	(1)
crimson the color	249	(2)
Alma Luz Villanueva
Even the Eagles Must Gather	251	(2)
Delicious Death	253	(3)
Warrior in the Sand	256	(3)
Bernice Zamora
Contraries	259	(1)
Glint	260	(1)
Glossary of Spanish Terms and Phrases	261	(14)
Notes on Historical and Mythological Characters	275	(2)
Notes on Contributors	277	(28)
Credits and Publication Histories	305