Research Catalog

Title

I have eaten the rattlesnake : new and selected poems / Laurie Ann Guerrero.

Author

Guerrero, Laurie Ann

Publication

Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Espada, Martín, 1957-

Description

85 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"This is a collection of poems by a Texas poet laureate"--

Series Statement

TCU Texas poet laureate series

Uniform Title

TCU Texas poets laureate series.

Subjects

• Mexican Americans
• Autobiographical poetry
• Poetry
• Texas
• Mexican Americans > Texas > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Autobiographical poetry.
• Poetry.

Contents

From A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying -- Preparing the Tongue -- Sundays after Breakfast: A Lesson in Cotton Picking -- Sundays after Breakfast: A Lesson in Speech -- Las Lenguas -- Summer -- Stray Cat -- Babies under the House -- My Mother Woke a Rooster -- Put Attention -- Ode to My Boots -- Morning Praise of Nightmares -- Wooden Box -- Mr. G's Collection -- Ode to El Cabrito -- Ancient Algebra -- Early Words for My Son -- One Man's Name: Colonization of the Poetic, i-ix -- From A Crown for Gumecindo -- Where the Dead Come to Speak -- Love is Our Mother -- Praise Song for the Goat at the Grave -- The Absence of Water -- The Mesquite -- Without You, I Am Cactus -- Newborns -- Dia de Los Muertos -- Sunday Dinner -- Stone Fruit -- Casketing -- Untouchable -- (untitled) -- The Work: Blueprints for the Body -- En las Costillas de la Pagina -- Goodbye Sonnet -- Occasional and Ekphrastic Poems -- Last Meal: Breakfast Tacos, San Antonio, Tejas -- How to Sacrifice Your Son -- Brownies of the Southwest: Troop 704 -- (To the) Young Girl on a Chair -- The Miniature World of Faith -- Ars Politica: How to Make Art -- Three Hundred Years Before These, Three Hundred After -- So She Would Not Watch Him Split in Two, A Mother Commits Her Child to the Care of Her Enemy -- Between the Soil and the Sun -- New Work (2015-2019) -- On Eating Rabbit -- Mourning Song -- Where I Will Not Let You Take Me -- La Mano Ponderosa -- One Thousand Days after Death -- Letter to My Children about the Mouth -- Play the Song -- Inside This Hour -- Her English Name Is Krissy -- Catalyst for a Daughter-In-Law -- Ode to the Beet -- Night Feeding -- The Blessing -- The Plight of Lovers.

Call Number

JFE 21-3245

ISBN

• 9780875657462
• 087565746X

LCCN

2020038668

OCLC

1192305440

Author

Guerrero, Laurie Ann, author.

Title

I have eaten the rattlesnake : new and selected poems / Laurie Ann Guerrero.

Publisher

Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

TCU Texas poet laureate series

TCU Texas poets laureate series.

Added Author

Espada, Martín, 1957- writer of introduction.

Other Form:

Online version: Guerrero, Laurie Ann I have eaten the rattlesnake Fort Worth : TCU Press, 2020. 9780875657691 (DLC) 2020038669

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3245