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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HISPANIC AMERICANS Matches Found: 203 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABANDONED, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gladys, where did you go? Last Line: To recall you to your creation Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ADIOCITO, MOTHER SNOW, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Text First Line: Vamos. Enough Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Snow; Latinos ADMIRAL AND THE SNAKE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the island of the snake Last Line: Monuments to a riot of sailors %and obscene songs about the admiral Subject(s): Hispanic Americans ADOLFO AND LUCIA, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lucia's eyes %are a city at night Last Line: Managua from the sky Subject(s): Hispanic Americans AFTER THE FLOOD IN CHINANDEGA, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nicaragua %is a young brown girl Last Line: Grinning at the way %her green bird %balances himself %on her head Subject(s): Hispanic Americans AGAIN THE MERCENARIES: ATLANTIC COAST OF NICARAGUA, 4TH OF JULY 1982, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rio sucio drags the reaching brown hand of branches Last Line: And approaching three unknown men swaggering machetes Subject(s): Hispanic Americans ANATOMY LESSON, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are sitting in bed, my legs on your lap Last Line: Nor I yet touched down upon from %my high expectations Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ARM, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man pushing Last Line: Sneering at their own jok, %no one knows Subject(s): Hispanic Americans ARTHUR BRYANT'S, KANSAS CITY, MO- OR, CUBAN POET GORGES HIMSELF...., by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entropy is the daily topic here, how sauces ooze off plastic trays Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Restaurants; Food & Eating; Kansas City, Missoufri; Latinos ASHES AND DONUTS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Discovering a day-old harvest Last Line: They slept on the beach that night, %without the romance of tourists Subject(s): Hispanic Americans AT HIS BODEGA, LEO SELLS EVERYTHING, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His own hands fall limp at his sides, then plunge deep into his pockets Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women AUDITION, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Porfirio drove mami and me Last Line: Abruptly, her singing stopped Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women BEGINNING AGAIN, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night Last Line: The grasses bending, the car pointing %towards the horizon I'll call home Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women BETWEEN DOMINICA AND ECUADOR, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The earphoned guardians click off %the dominican republic Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women BILINGUAL SESTINA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Some things I have to say aren't getting said Last Line: Heart beating, beating inside what I say en ingles Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Literary Form; Travel; Women BLACK TRAIN THROUGH THE ANCIENT EMPIRE OF CHICAGO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere an ancient empire Last Line: Wary of vandals at night, %unemployed in the city Subject(s): Hispanic Americans BLACKBALLED BY THE RAINBOW GIRLS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rainbow girls, daughters of the masons Last Line: No god of the grandfather's face %handed her a nickel %for the truth Subject(s): Hispanic Americans BOCA'S MAYOR CALLS MIKE OVER, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We've signed out in his death notebook in unerasable ink! Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women BOOKMAKING, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the pierpont morgan I go up and down Last Line: And the handing down to the generations to come %the world's body loved by our passionate arts Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women BOOT CAMP INCANTATION, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What does a marine feel Last Line: The recoil of his m-16 Subject(s): Hispanic Americans BOROFELS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In brooklyn, the mice were crazy Last Line: The could yell now %like banned poets %back from exile Subject(s): Hispanic Americans BROKEN WINDOW OF ROSA RAMOS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rosa ramos could spread her palm Last Line: Get out. Get out. Get out Subject(s): Hispanic Americans BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poet's Biography First Line: In the school auditorium / the theodore roosevelt statue Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Latinos; Students BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the school auditorium %the theodore roosevelt statue Last Line: Across the victorian mustache %and monocle Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations CADA PUERCO TIENE SU SABADO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Cada puerco tiene su sabado Variant Title(s): Cada Puerco Tiene Su Sabad Subject(s): Hispanic Americans CARNIVAL LEAVES FOR THE NEXT TOWN, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For you, the carnival meant Last Line: In my sure hands %and flip it through a hoop Subject(s): Hispanic Americans CHEO SAW AN ANGEL ON DIVISION STREET, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cheo was a latin king Last Line: I am the sweat of your skin, %I am the one you will pray for, %I am the kiss of the cross Subject(s): Hispanic Americans CHOTA AND THE PATRON, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tennis players flitted %with the ball's echo Last Line: Where dark skin grows darker %in the poisonous heat Subject(s): Hispanic Americans CITY OF COUGHING AND DEAD RADIATORS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot evict them Last Line: A loud-faced man %trumpets from the gallery: %death to legal aid Subject(s): Chelsea, Massachusetts; Hispanic Americans; Landlords And Tenants; Poverty CLARIOL, THE YOUNGEST OF NANA'S GIRLS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The next meal and the next child she doesn't want Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women CLEMENTE'S BULLETS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half a century ago Last Line: Across the plaza %with a barking of rifles, %and he will awaken %to a morning %in 1936 Subject(s): Hispanic Americans COCA-COLA AND COCO FRIO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On his first visit to puerto rico Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Popular Culture - United States; United States - Race Relations; Latinos COCA-COLA AND COCO FRIO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On his first visit to puerto rico Last Line: Sagged heavy with milk, swollen %and unsuckled Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Popular Culture - United States; U.s. - Race Relations COCKROACHES OF LIBERATION, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Near the campus, every night Last Line: Immune to the stink %of government fumigation Subject(s): Hispanic Americans COLIBRI, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In jayuya, %the lizards scatter Last Line: Where he disappears %into a paradise of sky, %a nightfall of singing frogs. %if only history %were l Subject(s): Hispanic Americans CONFESSION OF THE TENANT IN APARTMENT # 2, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The landlord's %beige fleetwood cadillac Last Line: That my jumper cables %didn't work Subject(s): Hispanic Americans CORDILLERA, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far from beggars' hands Last Line: For bread and sight %and salvation Subject(s): Hispanic Americans COURTHOUSE GRAFFITI FOR TWO VOICES, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy c. %greatest car theif alive Last Line: Then what %are you doing %here? Subject(s): Hispanic Americans CROSS PLAINS, WISCONSIN, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blue bandanna %across the forehead Last Line: The fine for speeding %is exactly %sixty-seven dollars, %andhis car %will follow my car %out of town Subject(s): Hispanic Americans CUSIN AND TATA, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cusin waits for the white cruise ship Last Line: In the winter of 1965 %with another cup of cafe con leche Subject(s): Hispanic Americans DAVID LEAVES THE SAINTS FOR PATERSON, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: David's arm hung near-paralyzed Last Line: Who also pushes the medicine carts to impatient doctors %and cannot stop drinking Subject(s): Hispanic Americans DAY OF THE DEAD ON WORTMAN AVENUE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Halloween in brooklyn Last Line: For silence overhead, %growling threats at the ceiling Subject(s): Hispanic Americans DIVORCE WORK, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is an energy crisis Last Line: Distilling thru my eyes, tears for this whole world Subject(s): Divorce; Hispanic Americans; Law & Lawyers; Unfaithfulness; Latinos; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy DON'T WORRY, SON, YOU'RE IN THE CARE OF MENTAL HEALTH..., by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the man Last Line: For the shoes %he's already %wearing Subject(s): Hispanic Americans DOWN THAT MOUNTAIN, MIKE AND I HIKE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Where another country waits, %the one I came to discover Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women DRUGS IN THE FOREHEAD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Iron doors, windows sunken and repeating themselves Last Line: A face with drugs in the forehead Subject(s): Hispanic Americans DSS DREAMS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed %the department of social services Last Line: The pig's ok?' I asked. %'the pig's ok,' they said Subject(s): Hispanic Americans EIGHT HUNDRED A.D. ON THE WARD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An observation patient %wailing through Last Line: He visits in dreams Subject(s): Hispanic Americans EL GRITO DE PEPABERTA, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years ago Last Line: Who kept their bladders full %till morning Subject(s): Hispanic Americans EL PROFESOR JUAN BAUTISA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And snips with a pair of scissors seven times two kids free! Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women EL SENOR ESTA MUERTO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was paco the gambler Last Line: Against a white sky that almost rained Subject(s): Hispanic Americans ESTEL, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your name, esther, in your mother's shy campesino voice Last Line: Beyond my reach, deep in the mute heart Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women EXILE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night we fled the country, papi Last Line: Eager, afraid, not yet sure of the outcome Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women FEDERICO'S GHOST, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The story is / that whole families of fruitpickers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics & Government; Latinos FEDERICO'S GHOST, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The story is %that whole families of fruitpickers Last Line: At the cropduster %that hummed like a mosquito %lost in his ear, %and kept his soul awake Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics FIDEL IN OHIO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bus driver tore my ticket Last Line: The resemblance is amazing,' %the driver said, %and I agreed Subject(s): Hispanic Americans FIRING SQUAD IS SINGING IN CHILE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was years ago, %at the moment of the coup Last Line: With the furious chorus %of the firing squad Subject(s): Hispanic Americans FIRST LOVE LETTER, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest- %addressed by your hand the envelope seems Last Line: Your common-sounding, no less cherished name- %joe Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women FLORIDA CITRUS GROWERS ASSOCIATION RESPONDS TO A ..., by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An orange, %squeezed on the hands Last Line: Is an adequate substitute %for soap and water Subject(s): Hispanic Americans FOR THE LANDLORD'S REPAIRMAN, SINCE HE ASKED, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, %I am %one of those lawyers Last Line: Who smuggles %sandinistas %into the country Subject(s): Hispanic Americans FROM AN ISLAND YOU CANNOT NAME, by MARTIN ESPADA Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years ago, / your linen-gowned father stood Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Latinos FROM AN ISLAND YOU CANNOT NAME, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years ago, %your linen-gowned father stood Last Line: That you're other, %that you're not Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GLADYS SINGING, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gladys sang as she worked Last Line: Rooms sparkling like jewels %in a mummy's lonely tomb Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women GOING BACK TO SLEEP, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After making love, I hear you in the bathroom Last Line: All night we go back and forth, back and forth, %towards what we think we want Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women GRACE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A soft rap at the door Last Line: And the storm again begins Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women GREEN AND RED, VERDE Y ROJO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night, when beacon hill Last Line: And all the hours of the night %to picture the executioners Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Office Employees; Paintings And Painters GRITO FOR NICARAGUA, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After years of land stripped brown and humiliated as a %slave's back Last Line: For the curiosity of flies and children Subject(s): Hispanic Americans HAIKU BAILANDO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mambo merengue Last Line: All words to say dance Subject(s): Hispanic Americans HEART OF HUNGER, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Smuggled in boxcars through fields of dark morning Last Line: To pull a fierce gasping life %from the polluted current Subject(s): Hispanic Americans HIDALGO'S HAT AND A HAWK'S BELL OF GOLD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus hallucinated gold Last Line: Swinging in the hat %like a cannonball in a sack Subject(s): Hispanic Americans HOME FIRES, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our last full day together we pass a house Last Line: As if we could combine our lives and blow %this ending out Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women I DROVE UP IN MAMI'S MERCEDES, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Waving the guard adios, I headed down the mountain Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women I HADN'T FIT INTO ANY OF THE STORIES, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Chiquita, I was on my way back to where I cam from! Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women I HEAR PAPITO CALLING, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To the shore I've made up on the other side Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women I'VE MET EVERYONE IN BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A happy ending to close at least one version of my story Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women IF YOU SEE ME IN L.A. IT'S BECAUSE I'M LOOKING FOR AIRPORT, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Even without hollywood Last Line: Beholding the distance %of the smog Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Los Angeles; Mexico City; Travel; West Indies IMAGINE THE ANGELS OF BREAD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the year that squatters evict landlords Last Line: Teeth like desecrated headstones, %fill with the angels of bread Variant Title(s): Imagine The Angels Of Bread: 199 Subject(s): Hispanic Americans IMMIGRANT ICEBOY'S BOLERO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He caught lizards in the afternoon Last Line: On 108th street, %staggering an iceboy's bolero Subject(s): Hispanic Americans INMATE TORRES SINGS WAITING FOR THE PAROLE BOARD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For inmate torres %the dominoes never matched Last Line: Sings for a surprise Subject(s): Hispanic Americans INTELLIGENCE OF SCAVENGERS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three vultures walk the ground clumsily Last Line: Patiently scouting the moment %to skin the dead, %to parade arrogantly %among the living Subject(s): Hispanic Americans ISLANDIS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: This is the taste of the Last Line: Wearing crowns of %bird gone feathers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel JEEP DRIVER, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know everyone %in this country,' %he says Last Line: Striking the wind, %sweeping the wind Subject(s): Hispanic Americans JIM'S BLIND BLUES, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are some things %doctors can't fix' Last Line: Will not know %where to find him Subject(s): Hispanic Americans JOB SEARCH GOT US DOWN, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the waiting room %I read the job ads Last Line: Job search %got you down? Subject(s): Hispanic Americans JORGE THE CHURCH JANITOR FINALLY QUITS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one asks / where I am from Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Janitors; Politics & Government; Latinos JORGE THE CHURCH JANITOR FINALLY QUITS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one asks %where I am from Last Line: Like a crazy squid %with stringy gray tentacles. %they will call it jorge Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Janitors; Politics JULIO SIGNING HIS NAME, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Julio cheats %signing his name Last Line: But julio's black hand %was schooled for lettuce-picking, %not lawsuits Subject(s): Hispanic Americans JUSTO THE PAINTER AND THE CONQUEST OF LAWRENCE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shaking hands with us Last Line: Escort him by the elbow %for deportation. %let them. %justo the painter has conquered lawrence Subject(s): Hispanic Americans KING OF BOOKS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The books traveled with camilo Last Line: In el salvador, %a plague commanded %by camilo, %the king of books Subject(s): Hispanic Americans LA CONDUCTORA DEL DESEO/CONDUIT, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman, la conductora, at number 51, corner Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Women; Latinos LA REVOLUCION AT ANTONIO'S MERCADO, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Para la santera, esperanza, who makes me open new boxes of candles so she can pick out the Last Line: "who left a note addressed to me in spanish -- ""para mi amigo." Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Latinos LA TORMENTA, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: La muerte es una tormenta. %death is a storm' Last Line: La tormenta %and the anthill scattering Subject(s): Hispanic Americans LA TUMBA DE BUENAVENTURA ROIG, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buenaventurea roig, / once peasants in the thousands Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics & Government; Latinos LA TUMBA DE BUENAVENTURA ROIG, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buenaventurea roig, %once peasants in the thousands Last Line: Where the statue of san miguel %still chokes the devil with a chain Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics LAST LOVE STORY, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After you tell me %your last love story Last Line: In spite of yourself %again becoming Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women LATIN MUSIC IN NEW YORK, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poet's Biography First Line: Made me dance with you Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans; Urban Life; Latinos LATIN MUSIC IN NEW YORK, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Made me dance with you Last Line: You %and %you Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans LATIN NIGHT AT THE PAWNSHOP, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The apparition of a salsa band Last Line: Like the city morgue ticket %on a dead man's toe Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans LEGAL AID LAWYER HAS AN EPIPHANY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I bounce off the bus for work Last Line: The sign on the door %offered a manicure %with every palm reading Subject(s): Hispanic Americans LEO BLUE'S AND THE TIGER ROSE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mitchell walked three miles %for cigarettes Last Line: Old shoes unclaimed %near hunchback mattress Subject(s): Hispanic Americans LESSON OF MY UNCLE'S NOSE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle promised many times Last Line: Cartilage squashed %by a gritted wincing swing Subject(s): Hispanic Americans LITTLE HOUSE IS CLOSED UP, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fists posed to knock-we freeze. Are we ready for happiness? Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women LOS SURES, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bright-color portrait of jesus jumps Last Line: Turning hips and heartbeat quick Subject(s): Hispanic Americans LOVER OF A SUBVERSIVE IS ALSO A SUBVERSIVE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For the sobbing to begin, %and she refused to sob Subject(s): Hispanic Americans MAJESKI PLAYS THE SAXOPHONE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He killed his parents Last Line: And forced out the mouth, %jazz Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Insanity; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Saxophones MAKING UP THE PAST, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This never happened and yet I want the memory Last Line: I will keep coming back to all my imagined life Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MAMI AND GAUGUIN, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gauguin's barebreasted girls %hung above the sideboard Last Line: Signing my name with the flourish %of an artist on her canvas Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MANGOS Y LIMONES (1), by PAT MORA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The story is about swellings and slick slidings Last Line: Her mouth full of her own stories Subject(s): Hispanic Americans' Mothers Daughters; Women MANUEL IS QUIET SOMETIMES, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was quiet again, / driving east on 113 Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; War; Latinos MANUEL IS QUIET SOMETIMES, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was quiet again, %driving east on 113 Last Line: This is what he said: %'I never lied %to you, man' Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; War MARIANO EXPLAINS YANQUI COLONIALISM TO JUDGE COLLINGS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Judge: does the prisoner understand his rights? Last Line: Interpreter: yes Subject(s): Hispanic Americans MEMORIAL DAY PARADE AT THE VIET COFFEE HOUSE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the memorial day parade Last Line: That swoops and roars %but never leaves this sky Subject(s): Hispanic Americans MESA BLANCA (1), by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: If I were writing on rock Last Line: To lick the invisible %generations Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Language; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MI VIDA: WINGS OF FRIGHT, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The refugee's run Last Line: Found himself %knelling on the floor %with a paper towel Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MIKE AND I HAVE OUR BEST TALKS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Down main the desperate strains of 'satisfaction' approaching Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MIKE AND I PRETEND WE'RE MARRIED, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mike and I look at each other, his gaze is the first to falter Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MIKE AND I TOUR BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Men and women who died by the truths that they believed in Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MISSING MISSIVES, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In fellini's amarcord, the idiot Last Line: Your heart, your lips, your loins %to me-or so you say Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MONKEY BUSINESS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You send me to read the latest Last Line: The monkey business of the human heart Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MOON SHATTERS ON ALABAMA AVENUE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wooden box rattled %with coins for the family Last Line: Her hand dropped coins like seeds Subject(s): Hispanic Americans MOVING DAY IN THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moving crew began at 8 a.M. Last Line: Beyond the hands %like a silver cross %slapping sweat %underthe hard belly of a metal desk Subject(s): Hispanic Americans MRS. BAEZ SERVES COFFEE ON THE THIRD FLOOR, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It hunches %with a brittle black spine Last Line: Coffee the color %of a young girl's skin %in santo domingo Subject(s): Hispanic Americans MUSIC OF ASTRONOMY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every night %the ex-mental patient Last Line: That this orchestra %will one night %give him music Subject(s): Hispanic Americans MY LAST AFTERNOON IN BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Then ordering her home, he breaks my trance Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women NANDO MEETS PAPO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nando was the one from legal aid Last Line: At the landlord's wake, %conspiring union between beers, %welcomed back shorty Subject(s): Hispanic Americans NAVIDAD, ST. NICHOLAS AVE., by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An infant quirk of a pine Last Line: Todo el mundo back to his side Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Hispanic Americans NEW BATHROOM POLICY AT ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boys chatter spanish in the bathroom Last Line: So he decides %to ban spanish %in the bathrooms %now he can relax Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Schools NEW WORLD, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tia ana and tia fofi worked at la factoria. Tia Last Line: Tia fofi rose as if they also agreed with what %had become of me Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women NIGGERLIPS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Niggerlips was the high school name Last Line: And all you have, douglas, %is that unloaded gun Subject(s): Hispanic Americans NIGHT WATCHMAN'S INDENTURED SERVITUDE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep is a lover %who promised to be here %hours ago Last Line: The night %has appointed %a night watchman Subject(s): Hispanic Americans OLD MAN SLEEPS LIKE THE DEAD, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Come down, fisher of men, see if you can catch us again!' Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ON NOT SHOPLIFTING LOUISE BOGAN'S THE BLUE ESTUARIES, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Your book surprised me on the bookstore shelf Last Line: And I put the book back Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ONE OF LOS MUCHOS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Accusing with his silence, %wanting, finding me wanting Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ONE-NIGHT STAND IN THE MILK OF AN INDUSTRIAL MOON, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The touch of unspoken mouths, %hair and teeth Last Line: By the sentimental placard %on the wall Subject(s): Hispanic Americans OPERATION BOOTSTRAP: SAN JUAN, 1985, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man with one crutch Last Line: Begging coins %for the other crutch Subject(s): Hispanic Americans OTHER ALAMO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the crockett hotel dining room Last Line: Of the alamo %in black streaks of fire Subject(s): Hispanic Americans OUR BRIEF TRIP TO THE CAPITAL, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But passing the scene of our fight, all I longed for was happiness Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women PAPI WORKING, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The long day spent listening %to homesick hearts Last Line: They came to hear him say %nada in their mother tongue Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women PINBALL BETWEEN MADHOUSES, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slum building in blurred sun Last Line: And did not talk Subject(s): Hispanic Americans POLICEMAN'S BALL, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was Last Line: Snap his fingers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans PORTRAIT OF A REAL HIJO DE PUTA, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not the obscenity Last Line: Who steals cheese and crackers %from the office %where the door is deliberately %left open Subject(s): Hispanic Americans POWER, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crazyman %arms up Last Line: Was red %anyway Subject(s): Hispanic Americans PRAYER FOR THE BROTHER BURGLAR, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was once the adolescent junkie Last Line: To better grip the bullhorn %or the boss's collar Subject(s): Hispanic Americans PROOF, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Papi brought home a puppy Last Line: Right under our very noses Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women PUERTO RICAN AUTOPSY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winter-corpsed Last Line: And found %a rain forest Subject(s): Hispanic Americans QUEENS, 1963, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone seemed more american Last Line: Before the first foreigners owned %any of this free country Subject(s): Americans; Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; United States; Women REBELLION IS THE CIRCLE OF A LOVER'S HANDS (PELLIN AND NINA), by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The marchers gathered, nationalists Last Line: But rebellion %is the circle of a lover's hands, %that must keep moving, %always weaving Subject(s): Hispanic Americans RED BUZZARD OF LIGHT CIRCLING IN THE 25TH PRECINCT, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The festival is over Last Line: And the fbi is following julio Subject(s): Hispanic Americans REVOLUTIONARY SPANISH LESSON, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever my name Last Line: For the bilingual swat team %to helicopter overhead, %begging me %to be reasonable Subject(s): Hispanic Americans RIFLE IN MY HANDS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four dollar an hour bouncer Last Line: And hid my purple heart %in white bandages Subject(s): Hispanic Americans RIGHT HAND OF A MEXICAN FARMWORKER, SOMERSET COUNTY, MD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A rosary tattoo %betwen thumb Last Line: Means that christ %had hard hands %too Subject(s): Farm Life; Hispanic Americans SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL FOOD PANTRY STOMP, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for the carton of food Last Line: Named in his honor %by a maraca shaker %in the salsa band %of the unemployed Subject(s): Hispanic Americans SAVIOR IS ABDUCTED IN PUERTO RICO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At a place in the mountains Last Line: Without a guide %on the mountain roads %of the underworld Subject(s): Hispanic Americans SECRET OF THE LEGAL SECRETARY'S CIGARETTE SMOKE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cubicled women %pecking at computers Last Line: The senior partner's name %is a spat breath of cigarette smoke, %and even the quiet %religious woman Subject(s): Hispanic Americans SHAKING HANDS WITH MONGO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mongo's open hands: Last Line: Who shot his life away %for a bag of tecata %in a harlem bar%forty years ago Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Santamaria, Mongo (b. 1922) SHY SCHOOLGIRL IN PIGTAILS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Just waiting for luz to say the magic word Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SKULL BENEATH THE SKIN OF THE MANGO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The woman spoke %with the tranquillity of shock Last Line: Are found without heads %in el salvador Subject(s): Hispanic Americans SOPHIIE'S AMULET, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kansas is a whitewashed trailer Last Line: The shawl's wing, the drum's quake, hard feet %not yet bones for the anthropologist Subject(s): Hispanic Americans SOUND BITES: EL ROUND UP, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those hard days now called a background! Last Line: From one language to another Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND BITES: FIRST DAYS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nueva york, el hotel beverly Last Line: What else didn't you tell us? Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND BITES: FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, mami, what a shame Last Line: Wears a little pillbox hat Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND BITES: I SIZE UP LA SITUATION, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Translate yourself, nina Last Line: From the united states of america Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND BITES: MAMI'S ADVICE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep your voices down, girls Last Line: I dont want to hear another word Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND BITES: TALKING BACK TO MAMI (YEARS LATER), by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had to cut myself out Last Line: Not who you really are Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SPANISH OF OUR OUT-LOUD DREAMS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You took your father %from the bronx hospital Last Line: The vigil of your shimmering gaze Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Hispanic Americans STAYING UP ALONE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a week apart we sit face to face Last Line: In this locality-a grown woman Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SUBWAY DANSE MACABRE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The subway train clatters like a rusty saber in the dark Last Line: To door's iron burial tin cup empty in the hot ether breath %of lobotomy row Subject(s): Hispanic Americans TASTE FOR SILK AND BLACK SERVANTS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your taste %for delicate desserts, silk Last Line: Flashed on the television news %and you stepped wordlessly %from the room Subject(s): Hispanic Americans TATO HATES THE NEW YORK YANKEES, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was 1947, %tato was getting a tryout Last Line: And he hates the new york yankees Subject(s): Hispanic Americans TELL ME,' I ASK MIGUEL ANGEL, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As I take the reins into my trembling hands Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women THE RIGHT HAND OF A MEXICAN FARMWORKER, SOMERSET COUNTY, MD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rosary tattoo / betwen thumb Subject(s): Farm Life; Hispanic Americans; Agriculture; Farmers; Latinos THE SPANISH OF OUR OUT-LOUD DREAMS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poet's Biography First Line: You took your father / from the bronx hospital Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Hispanic Americans; Latinos TIBURON, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: East 116th Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Latinos TIBURON, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: East 116th Last Line: To his lucky station Subject(s): Hispanic Americans TIRES STACKED IN THE HALLWAYS OF CIVILIZATION, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, your honor, there are rodents Last Line: From the hallways of civilization, %and allowed to keep the cat Subject(s): Hispanic Americans TO KAIRI, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Are you speaking spanish Last Line: The voice is yourself Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Puerto Rico; South America TO SKIN THE HANDS OF GOD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The road that flattens Last Line: So that he wakes %too early for work, startled %at the hour of milking Subject(s): Hispanic Americans TONY WENT TO THE BODEGA BUT HE DIDN'T BUY ANYTHING, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tony's father left the family Last Line: Today tony lives on tremont street %above the bodega Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans TOOLMAKER UNEMPLOYED, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The toolmaker %is sixty years old Last Line: Sometimes %he stares down %into his walllet Subject(s): Hispanic Americans TOQUE DE QUEDA: CURFEW IN LAWRENCE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the archbishop comes to lawrence Last Line: They're collecting money for bail Subject(s): Hispanic Americans TOUCHSTONE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At la guardia's touch-tone, charge-a-call phone Last Line: Imagined bodies %genuinely touching Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women TRANSIENT HOTEL SKY AT THE HOUR OF SLEEP, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the late shift, front desk Last Line: By the desk, then leered %at the jabbering smokers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Hotels; Popular Culture - United States TRANSIENT HOTEL WEREWOLF, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the desk he asked Last Line: Only the chemicals %baying in his brain Subject(s): Hispanic Americans TRUMPETS FROM THE ISLANDS OF THEIR EVICTION, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the bar two blocks away Last Line: Darting between the corals Subject(s): Hispanic Americans TWO MEXICANOS LYNCHED IN SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA MAY 3, 1877, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More than the moment when forty gringos vigilantes Last Line: From the shade of bowler hats, but all %crowding into the photograph Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Lynching; Vigilantes UNFINISHED BUSINESS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He died Last Line: With his eyes %open Subject(s): Hispanic Americans VATOS, by LUIS ALBERTO URREA Poem Source First Line: All the vatos sleeping in the hillsides Last Line: All you vatos, you are not forgotten Subject(s): Hispanic Americans VOODOO CUCUMBERS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was haitian too Last Line: Cellophaned at supermarkets %sold for salad Subject(s): Hispanic Americans WAITING FOR THE COPS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In front %of the pubic %housing project Last Line: Waiting for the cops Subject(s): Hispanic Americans WATCH ME SWING, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was the fifth man hired Last Line: Yelling, 'watch me swing, boss, %watch me swing' Subject(s): Baseball; Hispanic Americans; Sports; Welfare WATER, WHITE COTTON, AND THE RICH MAN, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rosa's body stopped growing Last Line: Feels it scratching every time %her throat is dry Subject(s): Hispanic Americans WE ALSO DIED,' SAYS NANA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bare as nana's palms lined only with her bad fortune Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women WE LIVE BY WHAT WE SEE AT NIGHT, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the mountains of puerto rico Last Line: Living by what I saw at night, %with my eyes closed Subject(s): Hispanic Americans WHEN SONGS BECOME WATER, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where dubbed commercials Last Line: Will cool the sweat in their hair %and begin to think Subject(s): Hispanic Americans WHERE THE DISAPPEARED WOULD DANCE, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The shoeshine man squats at the hotel door Last Line: And the leaves of norivivi %are closing Subject(s): Hispanic Americans WHITE BIRCH, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two decades ago rye whiskey Last Line: Fanning across your back to flame, and felt only the grace of birches Subject(s): Hispanic Americans WHO BURNS FOR THE PERFECTION OF PAPER, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At sixteen, I worked after high school hours Last Line: That every open lawbook %was a pair of hands %upturned and burning Subject(s): Hispanic Americans WHO YOU LOVE? WHO YOU LOVE?, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How even what I loved belongs to me Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women WILLIE FINGERS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was born %without fingers Last Line: Where's willie?,' %the hustlers %in east harlem %always said, %'he's out %growin' fingers.' Subject(s): Hispanic Americans WORD MADE FLESH, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I looked up the words Last Line: In his corazon and my body Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women WORDS OF THE MUTE ARE LIKE SILVER DOLLARS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Scrubbing cars for the factory showroom: Last Line: Brought from hiding, %they flash. %'ed,' I said, 'how else %you get seconds %in america?' Subject(s): Hispanic Americans YEAR I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A SACRILEGIOUS HEART, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At twelve, I quit reciting Last Line: Could be stacked by team %in a plastic locker Subject(s): Hispanic Americans YOU REMEMBER THE DEFINITIONS, NOT THE WORDS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the first grand month of passion %and wild hope Last Line: The poems of our trying %to talk ourselves in love Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women |
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