Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo is Sandra María Esteves’ third collection of poetry. Her first book of poems, Yerba Buena (1981), was revolutionary in establishing an urban Latina woman’s choice and esthetic. Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo takes all of the rhythmic, bluesy potential and the women’s poetic militancy of Yerba Buena and brings them to full, resplendent, funky bloom. In this volume she blends the oral tradition with the literary tradition in a fusion of spiritual, blues and women’s poetics.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- 1. Indian Solo
- Affirmations #1, Life Shoppin' In Ma Becksy's Deli
- Autobiography Of A Nuyorican
- Springfield
- Father's Day On Longwood Avenue
- Sistas
- I Want To Paint
- Religious Instructions For Young Casualties
- Mambo Love Poem
- Mother's Day At Doña Rodríguez
- Invisible Inscriptions
- Rites of Passage #1, María Poeta Bled Daily
- So Your Name Isn't María Cristina
- Native America
- Afterbirths
- Affirmations #2, There Is A Poet Inside You
- This Is A Hill That Climbs
- 2. For Immediate Delivery
- Love Affair With A Welfare Hotel
- Puerto Rican Discovery #5, Here Like There
- Alternative Points Of View
- Unprescribed Symptoms Of A Life Withdrawal
- 3:00 AM. Eulogy For A Small Time Poet
- Original Jones Poem In BƄ
- South Bronx Testimonial #3, We Are All Insane
- Death Watch
- Because Life Is A Bitch
- Poema Para La Muerte
- Who Is Going To Tell Me
- Puerto Rican Discovery #6, Lodestar
- Open Memo
- Point Of Information
- Anonymous Apartheid
- Fighting Demons
- Puerto Rican Discovery #7, In The Eye Of The Storm
- Braintwister
- 3. Batarumba Autonomy
- Rumba Amiga, Amiga
- Gringolandia
- Affirmations #3, Take Off Your Mask
- In The Ring
- Black Notes And "You Do Something To Me"
- From The Ferrybank
- Resurrections
- Oshun's Love Poem
- Affirmations #4, I Seek
- Padrino
- Bautizo
- Life Is A Journey
- Ocha
- 101st Poem For My Husband
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