My own true name : new and selected poems for young adults, 1984-1999 /
Pat Mora with line drawings by Anthony Accardo.
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
Blooms -- A secret -- Mango juice -- First love -- Maybe -- Silence like cool sand -- Ode to pizza -- For Georgia O'Keefe -- The young Sor Juana -- The desert is my mother -- El desierto es mi madre -- Poinsettia -- Graduation morning -- Family ties -- University avenue -- Teenagers -- Match -- Mothers and daughters -- Thorns -- Picturesque: San Cristóbal de las Casas -- 1910 -- Border town: 1938 -- Fences -- Peruvian child -- Petals -- Los pétalos -- Immigrants -- Los inmigrants -- Abuelita's ache -- Two worlds -- Elena -- Learning English: chorus in many voices -- Mush -- Sugar -- Same song -- No substitutes -- To my son -- Cissy in a bonnet -- Goblin -- Good-byes -- Tigua elder -- Roots -- Desert women -- Tejedora maya -- Bribe -- Leyenda -- Abuelita magic -- Village therapy -- Los ancianos -- En la sangre -- In the blood -- Puesta del sol -- Maestro -- Pushing 100 -- Oral history -- Tomás ive ra -- Strong women -- Señora X no more -- Gentle communion -- Foreign spooks -- A voice -- Tree-wisdom -- Bosque del Apache -- Senior citizen trio -- Now and then, America.
More than sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, include such titles as "The Young Sor Juana," "Graduation Morning," "Border Town 1938," "Legal Alien," "Abuelita Magic," and "In the Blood."
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Mexican Americans--Poetry. Young adult poetry, American.