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Subject: MEXICAN AMERICANS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAPELLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ms. Steiger said, write about who you are.
Last Line: I am singing out
Subject(s): Chicanos; Identity; Self; Mexican Americans


A CHILD, A CHILD, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You held your breath
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


AGIO NERO, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Finding a spring, a holy act
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


AGUA NEGRA, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see her shadow
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


ANOTHER BROWN MAN, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Startling as blood
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


ARIZONA POEMS: 2. MEXICAN QUARTER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By an alley lined with tumble-down shacks
Last Line: "are mud walls in a waste of sand."
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


AURELIA: MOON JELLIES, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Without brain or eye or heart
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


BORDER TOWN: 1938, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She counts cement tracks
Subject(s): Schools; Chicanos; Segregation; Students; Mexican Americans


BRAIDED, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain, rattle of shells
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


BROKEN RHYTHMS; IN A MEXICAN LABOR CAMP, by AMANDA MATHEWS CHASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: La golondrina
Last Line: New music?
Subject(s): Chicanos; Migrant Labor; Music & Musicians; Mexican Americans; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers


CANADA IN ENGLISH, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mrs. Tinko says canada
Last Line: Skulls – are for us
Subject(s): Language; Chicanos; Words; Vocabulary; Mexican Americans


COATLICUE'S RULES: ADVICE FROM AN AZTEC GODDESS, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rule 1: beware of offers to make you famous
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women In The Bible; Mexican Americans; Virgin Mary


CONSEJOS DE NUESTRA SENORA DE GUADALUPE: COUNSEL FROM VIRGIN, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You seem surprised that I've appeared
Last Line: Immaculate and otherwise, happen. He knelt, full of me
Subject(s): Chicanos; Goddesses & Gods; Mexican Americans


DEPRESSION DAYS (1), by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He buys the dark
Subject(s): Chicanos; Depressions, Economic; Mexican Americans


EL ANGEL DE LA GUARDA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should have visited more often
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


EL BRUJO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every morning, I ring the corn, sing
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


EL COMETA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said, when the star of rumi burns azul
Last Line: All our eyes will explode all the eyes – in praise
Subject(s): Mexico; Liberty; Mexican Americans


EL FUEGO, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've prayed to her so many times
Last Line: Form blows out of her belly,. My true night
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


EL GATO, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At eight
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


EL MAIZ, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the speaker
Last Line: And voice your bones in my infinity light
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


EL RIO GRANDE, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe la llorona is el rio grande
Subject(s): Chicanos; Rio Grande River; Mexican Americans


EVENING, by TILLIE BURCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is evening time, and don juan pacheco
Last Line: And now over all gleams the bright evening star.
Subject(s): Chicanos; Evening; Mexican Americans; Sunset; Twilight


FEEDING THE WINDS, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stories pass like genes through families
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


FROM VIOLENCE TO PEACE, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twenty-eight shotgun pellets
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Death; Chicanos; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The; Mexican Americans


IT MAY BE DANGEROUS, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No sound. The child watches us
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


LA DULCERIA, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Released into the season
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


LA LOTERIA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my sleep, in this hurricane fiasco
Last Line: Without remorse or regret, with relish
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


LA MUERTE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My word against theirs, my sickle humor
Subject(s): Chicanos; Loteria (game); Mexican Americans


LAS DIAMONDS ARE UNA CHICA'S BEST AMIGA, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are you not that stray mignonette of my garden
Last Line: Be at home in my arms
Subject(s): Chicanos; Home; Household Employees; Mexican Border; Mexican Americans; Servants; Domestics; Maids


LEGAL ALIEN, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bi-lingual, bi-cultural
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


LLANTOS DE LA LLORONA: WARNINGS FROM THE WAILER, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every family has one
Last Line: Oye: never underestimate the power of the voice
Subject(s): Chicanos; Legends, Mexican; Mexican Americans


LUZ, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brick beds toilet lines the mexican road on fire 1917
Last Line: A child speaks with a man a man among the trees
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


OFRENDA FOR LOBO, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, fierce guardian angel
Last Line: You, entangle me. Come. Visit, if only for this night
Subject(s): Chicanos; Aunts; Ancestors & Ancestry; All Souls' Day; Mexican Americans


SANCTUARY, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could not disengage my world
Subject(s): Survival; Chicanos; Mexican Americans


THE BROWN PEOPLE HEAR WINTER COMING, by INA DRAPER DEFOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good is the hut from the tall, graceful willow
Last Line: When ghosts of the seed souls are walking.
Subject(s): Chicanos; Harvest; Mexican Americans


THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes
Last Line: Like young seals around our rock.
Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life


THE LURE, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The octopus on the platter moved
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


THE SHADOW, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tapping. On the window an insistent
Last Line: Those dark, kindly creatures, the summer my father died
Subject(s): Shadows; Mexican Americans


THE SHOP, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went down yesterday
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


THE WEIGHT OF A LIFE, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The darting comet streaks in
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans


TOMAS RIVERA, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They knew so much, his hands
Subject(s): Chicanos; Education; Mexican Americans


UNNATURAL SPEECH, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The game has changed
Subject(s): Chicanos; English Language; Mexican Americans


V, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Years pass
Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans