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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MEXICAN AMERICANS Matches Found: 43 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 |
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