The Floating Borderlands Twenty-Five Years of U.S
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The Floating Borderlands Twenty-five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature Edited by Lauro Flores University of Washington Press Seattle and London Contents List of Illustrations xiii Introduction 3 Nationhood Messengers Prose Rudolfo Anaya The Captain 15 Ron Arias A House on the Island 24 Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Un poco de todo 30 Alejandro Morales Car a de caballo 34 Sheila Ortiz Taylor Imaginary Parents: A Memoir (Selections) 38 Estela Portillo Trambley La Jonfontayn 45 Tomas Rivera El Pete Fonseca 55 Floyd Salas Kid Victory ' 62, Poetry Miguel Algarin El jibarito moderno 75 Paterson 11 Alurista do u remember 79 " ^cornfields thaw out • 80 vm / Contents Jimmy Santiago Baca Sun Calendar 81 We Knew It 82 Barbara Brinson Curiel Maria la 0 84 Lorna Dee Cervantes Heritage 89 Refugee Ship 90 You Are Like a Weed 91 Blue Full Moon in Witch 92 From the Cables of Genocide 93 On Love and Hunger 94 Lucha Corpi Lamento 95 Invernario 97 Fuga 98 Abelardo Delgado The Last Wow 100 Ines Hernandez Avila Luminous Serpent Songs 103 Coyote Woman Finds Fox . 105 Juan Felipe Herrera Photopoem of the Chicano Moratorium 106 Outside Tibet 110 Selena in Corpus Christi Lacquer Red 113 Angela de Hoyos The Final Laugh 114 Ten Dry Summers Ago 115 When Conventional Methods Fail 116 Tato Laviera angelito's eulogy in anger 117 tito madera smith 120 Melao 122 Jesus Maria Maldonado Gently Lead Me Home 123 Pat Mora Elena 124 Chuparrosa: Hummingbird 125 Cool Love 126 Sola 127 Miguel Pifiero Requiem for the Men's Shelter 128 A Lower East Side Poem 130 Contents / IX Noel Rico The Lower East Side . 132 Excerpt from the South Bronx II 133 The First Place 134 Luis Omar Salinas I Am America 135 As I Look to the Literate 138 My Father Is a Simple Man 139 What Is My Name? 140 Middle Age 141 Ricardo Sanchez Letter to My Ex-Texas Sanity 142 En-ojitos: Canto a Pihero 145 Memory Makers Prose Julia Alvarez El Doctor 149 Denise Chavez The Closet 157 Lionel G. Garcia The Day They Took My Uncle 168 Dagoberto Gilb Birthday 176 Max Martinez The Adventures of the Chicano Kid 179 Hugo Martinez-Serros Learn! Learn! 192 Judith Ortiz Cofer The Black Virgin 201 Alberto Rios The Birthday of Mrs. Pineda 207 Helena Maria Viramontes Miss Clairol 215 Poetry Francisco X. Alarc6n Chicome-Coatl/Seven Snake 219 " For Planting Camotes 220 To Undo the Sleep Spell 221 x / Contents Ana Castillo 1975 222 Napa, California 224 The Antihero 226 Martin Espada David Leaves the Saints for Pater son 227 Colibri 228 Sandra Maria Esteves Amor negro 230 So you want me to be your mistress 231 Transference 233 Alicia Gaspar de Alba After 21 Years, a Postcard . 235 Bamba Basilica 237 Ray Gonzalez Walk 238 Two Wolf Poems 239 Judith Ortiz Cofer El olvido (segun las madres) 241 So Much for Mariana 242 The Latin Deli 243 Leroy V. Quintana Poem for Josephine Baker 244 Alberto Rios On January 5,1984, El Santo . 245 Luis J. Rodriguez Running to America 248 Leo Romero The Dark Side of the Moon 251 The Moon Is Lost 253 The Ocean Is Not Red 254 When Pito Tried to Kill 255 Carmen Tafolla Woman-Hole 258 Luz Maria Umpierre Poema para Elliot Gilbert 259 Gina Valdes English con Salsa 262 Evangelina Vigil-Piiion Dumb Broad! 263 Contents / xi New Navigators of the Floating Borderlands Prose Kathleen Alcala Walking Home 269 Alba Ambert Losses 274 Sandra Benitez El Pajarero 281 Omar Castaneda Dogs of Clowerston 288 Daniel Chacon Aztldn, Oregon 313 Elena Diaz Bjorkquist The Hershey Bar Queen 326 Pablo La Rosa La muerte de Marielito 336 Arturo Mantecon An Imbalance of Humors 344 Daniel Orozco Erotica 353 Beatriz Rivera Shango's Rest 359 Poetry David Acosta Posada After the Rains 368 Hunger 370 In Winter 372 The Return 374 Rane Arroyo Blonde as a Bat 375 Columbus's Children 378 Caribe Poems 380 Richard Blanco Teatro Marti 382 Lisa D. Chavez In an Angry Season 383 Young Widow Walking Home 385 Art Coelho Two Prices: No Yields 387 xii / Contents Ina Cumpiano Metonymies 390 Yo, La Malinche 392 Ramon Garcia- Miss Primavera Contest 397 Rigoberto Gonzalez The Flight South of the Monarch Butterfly 399 Ghost Story 401 Lola Haskins De lo que yo me entere . 403 Caroline Hospital Dear Tia 404 Wasabi Kanastoga Moses of Echo Park 405 I listen to 406 Amalio Madueno Ballad of Friendship through the Ages 407 Sanctuary ofChimayo 409 Arroyo 410 Julio Marzan Grand Central Station 411 Volkswagen on Calle Cerra 412 Pablo Medina The Apostate 413 Achy Obejas Sugarcane 414 Yvonne Sapia Del medio del sueho 416 La desconocida 417 Edgar Silex Washington D.C. 418 Leavine Cibola 420 Franklyn P. Varela Electric Cowboys All Andres Zapocas me-nudo 424 Constelacion 425 Under the Moon of Texas 426 Andres sin tierra 427 Credits and Permissions 429.