Looking out, looking in : anthology of Latino poetry / edited by William Luis.

Includes bibliographical references.

Psalm for the next millennium ; Sonnets for the four horsemen of the apocalypse: long time among us / Jack Agüeros -- A mongo affair ; El jibarito moderno; Nuyorican angel of records / Miguel Algarín -- Tarde sobria ; do u remember ; cornfields thaw out / Alurista (Alberto Baltazar Urista) -- Homecoming ; Dusting ; Bilingual sestina ; Exile ; Hairbands / Julia Álvarez -- White-wing season ; sus plumas el viento ; El sonavabitche ; Cihuatlyotl, woman alone ; To live in the borderlands means you ; Don't give in, chicanita / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Immigrant's voice / Naomi Ayala -- Pinos Wells ; Roots ; A daily joy to be alive ; from Poem VI / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- The Jewish cemetery in Guanabacoa / Ruth Behar -- America / Richard Blanco -- Recipe: chorizo con huevo made in the microwave / Bárbara Brinson Curiel -- Poema en tres idiomas y caló / José Antonio Burciaga -- To Julia de Burgos ; My, oh my, oh my of the nappy-haired Negress ; Poem for my death / Julia de Burgos -- Belonging ; XVI. The daughter of my imagination ; Aida / Rafael Campo -- Not just because my husband said / Ana Castillo -- Rincón ; I brought Abuelo Leopoldo back from the dead and moved him to Miami ; Leavings / Sandra Castillo -- Stolen kisses are the sweetest ; Letter from Lucrezia Borgia to her confessor / Carlota Caulfield -- To we who were saved by the stars / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Caminando a solas ; Walking alone ; Labor de retazos ; Patchwork ; Carta a Arturo ; Letter to Arturo / Lucha Corpi -- Kilotons and then some / Carlos Cumpían -- Stupid America / Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado -- Black train through the ancient empire of Chicago ; Trumpets from the islands of their eviction ; Niggerlips / Martín Espada -- The given account ; Hubble's law ; The battle of Nashville ; A warm day in winter ; Proof ; Lighter / Blas Falconer -- After 21 years, a postcard from my father ; Sor Juana's litany in the subjunctive ; Confessions / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- Outline for a Cuban folk-dance / Lourdes Gil -- I am Joaquín: an epic poem / Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales -- Memory of the hand / Ray Gonzáles -- Helen ; Martha at the edge of desire ; Maria and the others / Franklin Gutiérrez -- Going uptown to visit Miriam ; Three days/out of Franklin ; The physics of Ochun / Victor Hernández Cruz -- El trópico ; Dear tía ; An unexpected conversation ; The child of exile ; The hyphenated man ; Sorting Miami ; Freedom ; Blake in the Tropics ; Geography jazz ; How the Cubans stole Miami / Carolina Hospital -- Woman, woman ; When conventional methods fail / Angela de Hoyos -- Fresa / Gabriela Jáuregui -- Havana blues ; Forgotten memory / Wasabi Kanastoga -- jesús papote ; tito madera smith ; AmeRícan ; lady liberty ; my graduation speech ; tesis de negreza ; nideaquinideallá / Tato Laviera -- Ahora y siempre ; Mi madre ; Nuyorico ; S.P.I.C. / Caridad de la Luz (La Bru-j-a).

Nativity: for two Salvadoran women, 1986-1987 ; Hit and run / Demetria Martínzez -- The translator at the reception for Latin American writers ; Arresting beauty ; Ethnic poetry ; The old man / Julio Marzán -- Calle de la Amargura ; Philadelphia ; The floating island / Pablo Medina -- Cómo desnudar a una mujer con un saxofón / Rubén Medina -- In my perfect Puerto Rico ; Homemade hot sauce ; El coto laurel ; From the moment you died ; The dead ; Silence ; New York at 17 ; New York at 26 ; Milla ; Juanita / Nancy Mercado -- Mango juice ; The desert is my mother ; El desierto es mi madra ; Graduation morning ; University Avenue ; 1910 ; Two worlds ; Now and then, America ; Desert women ; The grateful minority ; Bribe / Pat Mora -- Repetitions ; Summer of the body ; Mariano, the air / Elías Miguel Muñoz -- Sugarcane / Achy Obejas -- Lessons of the past ; The idea of islands ; They never grew old ; The lesson of the sugarcane ; The Latin deli: an ars poetica ; So much for mañana / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The hollow ; Progress ; For the Cuban dead ; Winter landscape with a bird trap ; Ibises, Miami / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- Ten-pound draw ; Black boots ; Forty-one bullets off-Broadway / Willie Perdomo -- Nobody knows my name ; Ghost writing ; Velorio ; What I used to know / Gustavo Pérez-Rirmat -- The first rock and roll song of 1970 ; Nighttime sunshine mind game / Pedro Pietri -- A lower east side poem ; The book of Genesis according to St. Miguelito ; This is not the place where I was born / Miguel Piñero -- Los caudillos / raúlsalinas -- Kid Hielero ; Combing my hair in the hall / Alberto Álvaro Ríos -- We didn't bury him / Tomás Rivera -- The blast furnace ; They come to dance ; Deathwatch ; Running to America / Luis J. Rodríguez -- To the desert ; The ninth dream: war (in the city in which I live) ; Confessions: my father, hummingbirds and Frantz Fanon / Benjamín Alire Sáenz -- Death in Vietnam ; My father is a simple man / Luis Omar Salinas -- Barrios of the world / Ricardo Sánchez -- Thanksgiving ; Elizabeth, New Jersey / Berta Sánchez-Bello -- Daybreak / Gary Soto -- Marked ; Compliments ; Sweet remember / Carmen Tafolla -- New York City mira mira blues ; Swallows of Salangan / Gloria Vando -- Perspectives ; Wo/men ; Haiti ; Reports / Chiqui Vicioso -- Me caes sura, ése, descuéntate ; La loca ; was fun running 'round descalza ; transference / Evangelina Vigil Piñón -- There were times / Alma Luz Villanueva.

A comprehensive anthology that focuses on poetry from the four largest Latino groups in the United States: Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans and Dominican Americans. Includes works from more than 80 Latino poets writing from the mid-twientieth century to the present, dealing with a variety of issues from those specific to the Hispanic experience to more universal concerns.

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