Unaccompanied / Javier Zamora.
"This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-button political issues of immigration and border crossings"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781556595110
- ISBN: 1556595115
- ISBN: 9781619321779
- ISBN: 1619321777
- Physical Description: x, 94 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2017]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Lannan literary selection"--Page 4 of cover. |
Formatted Contents Note: | To Abuelita Neli -- Saguaros -- From the book I made with a counselor my first week of school -- Second attempt crossing -- El Salvador -- On a dirt road outside Oaxaca -- Cassette tape -- To President-Elect -- Pump water from the well -- Instructions for my funeral -- Montage with mangoes, volcano, and flooded streets -- The pier of La Herradura -- Dancing in buses -- How to enlist -- Documentary -- ARENA -- "Don Chepe" -- Disappeared -- Rooftop -- This was the field -- Politics -- Aftermath -- For Israel and Maria de los Ángeles -- Crybaby -- Abuelita Neli's garden with parakeets named Chepito -- I don't want to speak of "Don Chepe" -- How I learned to walk -- Postpartum -- "Ponele Queso Bischo" means put cheese on it kid -- Then, it was so -- Mom responds to her shaming -- Alterations -- Aubade -- Prayer -- Abuelita says goodbye -- Let me try again -- Citizenship -- San Francisco Bay and "Mt. Tam" -- Doctor's office first week in this country -- Vows -- Nocturn -- Deportation letter -- Seeing your mother again -- Exiliados -- June 10, 1999. |
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Subject: | American poetry > 21st century. POETRY > Caribbean & Latin American. American poetry. |
Genre: | Poetry. Poetry. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | 811.6 ZAM (Text) | 000161118 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Summary:
"This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-button political issues of immigration and border crossings"--