My own true name

My own true name

  • Author: Mora, Pat
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558852921
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611925746
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2000
  • Pages: 96

Adults and children alike have long admired Pat Mora’s extraordinary and diverse gifts. She has won awards and received acclaim for both her poetry (Borders, Chants, Communion, and other works) and her charming children’s books (Delicious Hullabaloo, Tomás and the Library Lady, The Desert Is My Mother, and many more).
Arte Público Press is pleased to pressent a major selection of poems chosen by Pat Mora herself with young-adult readers in mind. Using the cactus plant as her guiding metaphor for our existence, she present more than sixty poems grouped variously into “Blooms,” “Thorns,” and “Roots.” Each section opens with a graceful line drawing from artist Anthony Accardo, and the whole is prefaced by a whimsical and intimate introduction, “Dear Fellow Writer.”
My Own True Name, an anthology fifteen years in the making, is sure to be sought by deeply rooted and still-budding lovers of poetry.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Dear fellow writer
  • Blooms
    • A Secret
    • Mango Juice
    • First Love
    • Maybe
    • Silence Like Cool Sand
    • Ode to Pizza
    • For Georgia OÊKeeffe
    • The Young Sor Juana
    • The Desert Is My Mother
    • El desierto es mi madre
    • Poinsettia
    • Graduation Morning
    • Family Ties
    • University Avenue
    • Teenagers
    • Match
    • Mothers and Daughters
  • Thorns
    • Picturesque: San Cristóbal de las Casas
    • 1910
    • Border Town: 1938
    • Fences
    • Peruvian Child
    • Petals
    • Los pétalos
    • Immigrants
    • Los inmigrantes
    • AbuelitaÊs Ache
    • Two Worlds
    • Elena
    • Learning English: Chorus in Many Voices
    • Mush
    • Sugar
    • Same Song
    • No Substitutes
    • To My Son
    • Cissy in a Bonnet
    • Goblin
    • Good-byes
    • Tigua Elder
  • Roots
    • Desert Women
    • Tejedora maya
    • Bribe
    • Leyenda
    • Abuelita Magic
    • Village Therapy
    • Los ancianos
    • En la sangre
    • In the Blood
    • Puesta del sol
    • Maestro
    • Pushing 100
    • Oral History
    • Tomás Rivera
    • Strong Women
    • Señora X No More
    • Gentle Communion
    • Foreign Spooks
    • A Voice
    • Tree-Wisdom
    • Bosque del Apache
    • Senior Citizen Trio
    • Now and Then, America

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