The Latin deli : prose and poetry / Judith Ortiz Cofer.
Prose and poetry of a particular immigrant experience and also of such universal themes as the pains, confusions, and wonders of growing up.
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Athens, GA :
University of Georgia Press,
2010, ©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica; From the Book of Dreams in Spanish: Stories and Poems; American History; Not for Sale; Twist and Shout; By Love Betrayed; From Some Spanish Verbs
- Orar: To Pray; Dividir: To Divide; Respirar: To Breathe; Volar: To Fly; An Early Mystery; Fever; The Lesson of the Sugarcane; A Legion of Dark Angels; The Changeling; Absolution in the New Year; From the Book of Dreams in Spanish; The Witch's Husband; Nada; Letter from a Caribbean Island; Guard Duty; The Purpose of Nuns; The Game; The Lesson of the Teeth; They Never Grew Old.
- Nothing WastedWomen Who Love Angels; To Grandfather, Now Forgetting; My Grandfather's Hat; Blood; The Life of an Echo; Juana: An Old Story; The Campesino's Lament; Las Magdalenas; Olga; Dear Joaquin; Lydia; Vida; Paciencia; Old Women; Corazón's Café; The Medium's Burden: Other Narratives and Poems; How to Get a Baby; Advanced Biology; The Paterson Public Library; The Story of My Body; The Chameleon; The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María; Saint Rose of Lima; Counting; Unspoken; Who Will Not Be Vanquished?; Hostages to Fortune; To a Daughter I Cannot Console; Anniversary.