My Own True Name : New and Selected Poems for Young Adults, 1984-1999

by Mora, Pat

• ISBN13: 9781558852921
• ISBN10: 1558852921
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Arte Publico Pr

Summary

Readers of all ages have long admired Pat Mora's extraordinary literary gifts. Her poems and prose works alike, written for both adults and younger readers, have received awards and critical acclaim for their grace, luminosity, and craftsmanship.

Table of Contents

Dear Fellow Writer	1	(7)
Blooms
A Secret	7	(1)
Mango Juice	8	(2)
First Love	10	(1)
Maybe	11	(1)
Silence Like Cool Sand	12	(1)
Ode to Pizza	13	(2)
For Georgia O'Keeffe	15	(1)
The Young Sor Juana	16	(2)
The Desert Is My Mother	18	(1)
El desierto es mi madre	19	(1)
Poinsettia	20	(1)
Graduation Morning	21	(1)
Family Ties	22	(1)
University Avenue	23	(1)
Teenagers	24	(1)
Match	25	(1)
Mothers and Daughters	26	(3)
Thorns
Picturesque: San Cristobal de las Casas	29	(1)
1910	30	(1)
Border Town: 1938	31	(1)
Fences	32	(1)
Peruvian Child	33	(1)
Petals	34	(1)
Los petalos	35	(1)
Immigrants	36	(1)
Los inmigrantes	37	(1)
Abuelita's Ache	38	(1)
Two Worlds	39	(1)
Elena	40	(1)
Learning English: Chorus in Many Voices	41	(2)
Mush	43	(1)
Sugar	44	(2)
Same Song	46	(1)
No Substitutes	47	(1)
To My Son	48	(1)
Cissy in a Bonnet	49	(1)
Goblin	50	(1)
Good-byes	51	(1)
Tigua Elder	52	(3)
Roots
Desert Women	55	(1)
Tejedora maya	56	(1)
Bribe	57	(1)
Leyenda	58	(1)
Abuelita Magic	59	(1)
Village Therapy	60	(1)
Los ancianos	61	(1)
En la sangre	62	(1)
In the Blood	63	(1)
Puesta del sol	64	(1)
Maestro	65	(1)
Pushing 100	66	(1)
Oral History	67	(1)
Tomas Rivera	68	(2)
Strong Women	70	(1)
Senora X No More	71	(1)
Gentle Communion	72	(2)
Foreign Spooks	74	(1)
A Voice	75	(2)
Tree-Wisdom	77	(1)
Bosque del Apache	78	(1)
Senior Citizen Trio	79	(2)
Now and Then, America	81