Research Catalog

Title

Natural takeover of small things / Tim Z. Hernandez.

Author

Hernandez, Tim Z.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2013.

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Details

Description

68 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

A collection of poetry that offers an unflinching view of "California's Heartland," the San Joaquin Valley. In his distinctive style, the author offers a glimpse of the people, the landscape, the rhythm, and the detritus of the rural West.

Series Statement

Camino del sol : a latina and latino literary series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Camino del sol

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• West (U.S.) > Poetry

Genre/Form

• American poetry.
• Poetry
• American poetry – 21st century.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Arms up in dead heat. Home -- The truth about small towns -- Brown Christ -- Old school -- Two girls -- The day Johnny Tapia died on my sidewalk -- Foreclosure blues -- Born into it -- Hispanic upward mobility -- He appears -- El Grito -- Salinas as a succulent -- Dear Hector, -- Undelivered postcards to Lydia -- My name is Hernandez -- San Joaquin Sutra -- Natural takeover of small things. Natural takeover of small things -- On the corner of Cedar & Clinton -- The tractors -- Instructions for the altar -- Eight shots of Oval Park -- Flying parallel -- Still life of menudo with morning news -- Death meditations -- Mantra chores -- If nothing else -- Twenty-six starlings -- The myth of Kora -- Cooked tongue -- As if we didn't know -- Adios, Fresno.

ISBN

• 9780816530120 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0816530122 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2012027712

OCLC

• 802103094
• SCSB-10653381

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library