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A Mayan astronomer in Hell's Kitchen : poems
- Title
- A Mayan astronomer in Hell's Kitchen : poems / Martín Espada.
- Author
- Espada, Martín, 1957-
- Publication
- New York : Norton, [2000], ©2000.
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- Description
- 84 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- My Name Is Espada -- Preciosa Like a Last Cup of Coffee -- The Shiny Aluminum of God -- My Father As a Guitar -- For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts Where My Cousin Esteban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks -- Pegao -- The Governor of Puerto Rico Reveals at His Inaugural That He Is the Reincarnation of Ponce de Leon -- Ornithology at the Caribe Hilton -- The Rage of Plantation Days -- What Francisco Louis Espada Learned at Age Five, Standing on the Dock -- The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him -- A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen -- The Janitor's Garden -- The Death of Carmen Miranda -- The Community College Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics -- Thanksgiving -- Pitching the Potatoes -- Genuflection in Right Field -- The Ghost in the Trunk of the Car -- The Man Who Owns the Dumpster Owns the Books -- Ode to Your Earrings --
- I Apologize for Giving You Poison Ivy by Smacking You in the Eye with the Crayfish at the End of My Fishing Line -- Why I Went to College -- Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas -- Companero Poet and the Surveillance of Sheep -- A Cigarette's Iris in the Eye of a Candle -- Anarchism and the Parking Meter -- The Carpenter Swam to Spain -- The Eleventh Reason -- Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man Is Innocent -- Prisoner AM-8335 and His Library of Lions -- The River Will Not Testify.
- ISBN
- 0393048888
- LCCN
- 99052626
- OCLC
- ocm42649806
- SCSB-3841290
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries