Research Catalog

Title

Agua santa = Holy water / Pat Mora.

Author

Mora, Pat.

Publication

Boston : Beacon Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Description

xi, 129 pages; 22 cm

Summary

From a tribute to Frida Kahlo to advice from an Aztec goddess, award-winning Chicana poet Pat Mora explores the intimate and sacred spaces of borderlands. With warmth, joy, and humor, she delicately transforms often bitter struggles through many voices - a revolutionary, a laborer, a domestic worker and border patrol guard, a widow. Mora pays tribute to women - women who nurture, resist, and bridge cultures on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and throughout the world.

Alternative Title

Holy water

Subjects

• Mexican Americans > Poetry
• Mexican American women > Poetry

Contents

• The Loving Strip -- Ofrenda for Lobo -- Oasis -- Ballena -- Another Brown Man -- The Shadow -- Corazon del corrido -- Aurelia: Moon Jellies -- A Child, a Child -- Mama Spell -- Braided -- The Weight of a Life -- The Lure -- Feeding the Winds -- La dulceria -- A River of Women -- It May Be Dangerous -- Sly Woman -- Cuidado -- Spring Shining -- There Was a Woman -- Nunca, nunca -- Descent into Boca del Lagarto -- The Man -- Dear Frida -- January in Cincinnati -- Litany to the Dark Goddess -- Coatlicue's Rules: Advice from an Aztec Goddess -- Malinche's Tips: Pique from Mexico's Mother -- Consejos de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe: Counsel from the Brown Virgin -- Llantos de la Llorona: Warnings from the Wailer -- Agua negra -- Napping Sunday Afternoon -- The Official Line -- Los brazos del rio -- Fe Tzotzil -- Tzimin Chaak -- Tornabe -- Depression Days -- Cuban Revolutionary -- Dona Feliciana -- Mangos y limones -- Desert Mockingbird -- La Migra -- Pescadote --
• Metamorfosis -- Sueno de miel -- El Rio Grande -- Let Us Hold Hands -- Un cuento de agua santa -- Agio Nero -- Cuentista.

ISBN

0807068284

LCCN

95006024

OCLC

• 32050057
• ocm32050057

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries