La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge : poetry y otras movidas 1985-2001

La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge : poetry y otras movidas 1985-2001

  • Autor: Gaspar de Alba, Alicia
  • Editor: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558853997
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611921960
  • Lugar de publicación:  Houston , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación: 2003
  • Páginas: 128

In this collection of poetry and essays, Gaspar de Alba incorporates the Mexican archetypal wailing woman who wanders in search of her lost children. La Llorona is more than an archetype: she is a tour guide through the ruins of love and family and the constant presence of the poet's voice. She transcends time, place, and gender. The lines of the poems breathe that haunted spirit as they describe her movidas— both geographic and figurative, in search of the lost mother, the absent father, the abandoned child, the lover, the self. These essays track other movements of thought: reflections on identity, sexuality, and resistance.
As a leading interpreter of border life and culture, poet, storyteller, and essayist Gaspar de Alba explores the borders and limits of place, body, and language through a painful series of moves and losses. She prevails and becomes the forger of her own destiny, her own image on the landscape, the interpreter of her own dreams and history. These vibrant poems and essays of self-creation—even to the basic task of choosing her own name—are a testament to the phoenix-like quality of art: the poet can create beauty out of destruction and desolation.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Tracking La Llorona
  • Departure (1985)
    • Crooked Foot Speaks/Habla Pata Chueca
  • Iowa City (1985–1986)
    • In the Shadow of Greater Things
    • After 21 Years, A Postcard from My Father
    • Dust to Dust
    • Holy Ground
  • Boston (1987–1990)
    • The Philosophy of Frijoles
    • Gardenias for El Gran Gurú
    • 70 Moons
    • Bamba Basílica
    • Caldo de Pollo
    • Confessions
    • Pilgrim’s Progress
    • Sor Juana’s Litany in the Subjunctive
    • Listening to Our Bones
    • Karmic Revolution
    • Galloping
    • Literary Wetback
  • Elemental Journey 7 Days in the Woods (July 1989)
    • 1. Adirondack Park
    • 2. Swimming in Limekiln Lake
    • 3. Waking Up in Ontario: Reward
    • 4. The Niagara River Speaks Three Languages
    • 5. Rainstorm: The Gorge
    • 6. Piseco Lake
    • 7. Point Comfort: Coming Home
  • Albuquerque (1990–1992)
    • Autumn Equinox in the Sandias, 1990
    • Bluebirds
    • Chamizal
    • Name that Border
  • Los Angeles (1992–1999)
    • The Waters of Grief: Día de los Muertos, Santa Barbara, 1992
    • Huitlacoche Crepes
    • Neighbors
    • Descarada/No Shame: A[bridged] Politics of Location (1994)
  • Land of the Dead (1994–2001)
    • Carmen’s Song
    • Blackjack
    • Culto a la Muerte: Oaxaca, 1999
    • Witch Museum
    • Eclipse (September 11th): New York City, 2001
    • El Encuentro
  • Acknowledgments

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