El Coro : a chorus of Latino and Latina poetry / edited by Mart�in Espada.

English and Spanish.

Liquid matter ; Talking to the waves ; Voyage / Pedro L�opez Adorno -- Los desaparecidos ; The disappeared / Marjorie Agos�in -- Psalm for Bacalao ; Sonnets for the four horsemen of the apocalypse : long time among us / Jack Ag�ueros -- Nuyorican one wing olive-skin angel / Miguel Algar�in -- The way it sounds ; The dashboard Virgencita ; The lost & found Se�noritas / Julia Alvarez -- Receta de Dios #746 ; God's recipe #746 / Nicomedes Su�arez-Ara�uz -- Papo, who'd wanted to be an artist ; The night I walk into town ; Reform / Naomi Ayala -- Menopause ; Acontecio en un viaje de domingo a la playa ; It happened on a Sunday trip to the beach / Gioconda Belli -- Traici�on ; Betrayal ; Ocupaciones de la cr�itica ; The critics' trade / Alicia Borinsky -- The luxury of regrets ; The return ; Sonnet in the Cuban way / Rafael Campo -- El chicle / Ana Castillo -- Tango for the broom ; It occurs to me I am the creative/destructive goddess Coatlicue / Sandra Cisneros -- The tip ; Before the storm / Judith Ort�iz Cofer -- Islandis ; The lower East side of Manhattan / V�ictor Hern�andez Cruz -- With only smoke to cover me ; The circus / Carlos Cumpi�an -- Thanksgiving / Mart�in Espada -- Puerto Rican discovery #12 : token views ; In the beginning ; Amor Negro / Sandra Mar�ia Esteves -- La sombra de la culpa ; The shadow of guilt ; Requiem ; Requiem ; Language current / Rosario Ferr�e -- T�isica ; The creek that bears the salmon / Diana Garc�ia -- La Terraza / Magdalena G�omez -- �Ese ; The cost of family ; These days / Ray Gonz�alez -- Aphrodisiacal dinner jacket ; The anthropomorphic cabinet ; From Love after the riots, 3:07 AM / Juan Felipe Herrera -- La estatuas ; Statues ; �Arbol ; Tree / Norberto James -- Aurelio's vengeance, Puerto Rico, 1901 ; J�ibaros / Rick Kearns -- "The blood of the Chieftains Ran Like Water" ; Scattered vignettes (excerpt) / Frank Lima -- Imperialism ; We talk about Spanish ; Milagros / Demetria Mart�inez -- The prodigal son loses his wife ; The prodigal son buys a new car ; Starfish / Dionisio D. Mart�inez -- The translator at the reception for Latin American writers ; Foreign heart / Julio Marz�an -- Sin el Rezador ; Without the prayer-maker / V�ictor Montejo -- Honduran ghosts / Pat Mora -- Last rites / Rosario Morales -- Writing my will ; The assumption / Elizabeth P�erez -- Zen, where I'm from ; Hubcaps and hi-fi ; What it was like / Leroy Quintana -- Lunch walk / Bessy Reyna -- The old woman of Mer�ida / Luis Rodr�iguez -- Poema del Nuevo Le�on ; A walk through the Campo Santo / Ra�ul R. Salinas -- Pompeii and the uses of our imagination ; The essay examination for what you have read in the course world religions ; Moving our misery / Gary Soto -- The wood sculptor ; Xagua Castle, Cienfuegos / Virgil Su�arez -- Bases loaded ; HE 2-104 : a true planetary nebula in the making / Gloria Vando -- Estos �arboles ; These trees / Clemente Soto V�elez -- Service economy fantastique ; The busboy saw this / Michael Veve -- En el claroscuro de los a�nos ; In the Chiaroscuro of the years ; S�olo s�e que ahora ; I only know that now / Tino Villanueva -- Well-fare with no address ; Popping out babies while dragging your placenta to the mailbox / Enid Santiago Welch.

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"El Coro offers proof that Latino/a poetry today is more complex and diverse, more beautiful and powerful, than had been previously acknowledged." "Here we find the open expression of anger and grief, self-mocking humor, the music of protest, the quiet assertion of dignity, and the raucous celebration of survival. There are poems about stoop labor and welfare offices and housing projects, but also poems about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Minotaur." "Among the poets are former farm workers and gang members, a practicing physician, an ex-tenant lawyer, two professional chefs, and a Vietnam veteran. One poet was a political prisoner for six years; another staged a famous hunger strike; still another was indicted for her work with Central American refugees. In many ways this collection of poets comprises a chorus. Their song humanizes in the face of dehumanization."--Jacket.

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