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An edition of I ask the impossible (2001)

I ask the impossible

poems

1st Anchor Books ed.

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  • 1 Want to read

A collection of poems covering the author's commitment to social justice, the sensual world, and the strength of women, six of which are written in Spanish with English translations.

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Anchor Books
Language
English
Pages
121

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Mexican American women, Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)

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I ask the impossible: poems
2001, Anchor Books
in English - 1st Anchor Books ed.
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I ask the impossible: poems
2001, Anchor Books
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Table of Contents

I Ask the Impossible --
El Chicle --
No Dogs or Mexicans Allowed --
Waterbird Medicine --
Mi volador --
You Are Real as Earth y mas --
A Nahua Woman's Love --
Anna Mae Aquash --
Nothing But This at the End --
The Desert as Antidote: Verano, 1997 --
A Small Scorpion --
I Heard the Cries of Two Hundred Children --
"Never Again a Mexico Without Us"--Comandante Ramona --
1999 --
Burra, Yo --
Burra, Me --
La Burra confunde la amistad con un cuerazo --
La Burra Mistakes Friendship with a Lashing --
La Amiga regresa a educar a la burra --
The Friend Comes Back to Teach the Burra --
I Did Not Think She Was Beautiful--Then --
Coatlicue's Legacy --
"Like the people of Guatemala, I want to be free of these memories..."--Sister Dianna Ortiz --
De quien es la paz? --
Whose Peace Is It? --
I Saw Peru --
Dear Pope: Open Letter from the Americas --
Los Angeles: A Report --
Recipes for a Welfare Mother --
Women Don't Riot --
Cabrona con corazon/Goat Woman with a Heart --
Since the Creation of My Son and My First Book --
For Marcel Ramon from His Mother at Sea --
La Wild Woman --
What Is Not Found in Paintings or Books --
Tatehuari --
Tatehuari --
I Decide Not to Fall in Love --
Ydonde se encuentra Dios? --
Where Can We Find God? --
On the Meaning of Things --
Hummingbird Heart --
Nani Worries About Her Father's Happiness in the Afterlife --
Dia de muertos --
How Does It Feel to Be Cruel to a Woman? --
For My Child Who Became a Man in His Thirteenth Year --
A Little Prayer for the Trees --
For Alberto and Selena --
Death Is Only What It Is.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.A8135 I15 2001, PS3553.A8135I15 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 121 p. ;
Number of pages
121

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24711966M
ISBN 10
0385720734
ISBN 13
9780385720731
LCCN
00061790
OCLC/WorldCat
44728080

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