Research Catalog

Title

My father was a Toltec and selected poems, 1973-1988 / Ana Castillo.

Author

Castillo, Ana

Publication

New York : Anchor Books, 2004.

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Details

Description

xxvii, 158 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Presents lyrical, streetwise, frequently autobiographical poems, some in English and others in Spanish, including a new, never before published work.

Subjects

• Poetry
• Gangs > Poetry
• Chicago (Ill.) > Poetry
• Hispanic Americans > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Introduction. -- The Toltec: The Toltec -- Electra currents -- Red wagons -- Saturdays -- The suede coat -- Dirty Mexican -- For Ray -- Daddy with Chesterfields in a rolled up sleeve. -- La heredera: Alternatives -- For no one, or perhaps you -- Woman of Marrakech -- Recordando un disparate -- An ugly black dog named Goya -- Encuentros -- Mi comadre me aconseja -- La heredera -- Lamento de coatlicue -- Todo me recuerdo tu ausencia -- Poem -- For Jean Rhys. -- Ixtacihuatl died in vain: Ixtacihuatl died in vain -- La carta -- Traficante, too -- Wyoming crossing thoughts -- A marriage of mutes -- Martes en Toledo -- Tejido de pelo y dientes -- Guadalupe -- Cherry stained lips and thick thighs -- Lunes -- ¿Dónde empezar? -- I am the daughter/mother who has learned. -- In my country: A Christmas gift for the President of the United States, Chicano poets, and a Marxist or two I've known in my time -- Everywhere I go -- El sueño -- Entre primavera y otoño -- Zoila López -- Me & baby -- Paco and Rosa -- Cold -- Tomás de Utrera's first poem of spring -- We would like you to know -- No sólo el ser chilena -- Someone told me -- Esta mano -- In my country. -- Women are not roses: Women are not roses -- An idyll -- La tristesse -- Dices -- A November verse -- From "A letter to Alicia" -- Not just because my husband said -- Seduction of the poetess -- Si acaso -- Cartas -- Whole. -- The invitation: The invitation -- Dance of the nebulae -- Después de probar (la manzana) -- Tierra del fuego -- Tango (de la luna) -- Coffee break -- What only lovers. -- Otro canto: 1975 -- Milagros -- El ser mujer... -- A Christmas carol : c. 1976 -- Napa, California -- A counter-revolutionary proposition -- Strategy. -- Five random arrows (1974-1982): Juego -- La una y cuarto -- Last Sunday -- Invierno salvaje -- Our tongue was Nahuatl.

ISBN

140003499X

LCCN

^^2003062897

OCLC

53231278

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library