Research Catalog

Title

Unaccompanied / Javier Zamora.

Author

Zamora, Javier,

Publication

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2017]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

x, 94 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-button political issues of immigration and border crossings"--

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• American poetry > 21st century
• POETRY / Caribbean & Latin American
• Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• "A Lannan literary selection"--back cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

To Abuelita Neli -- Saguaros -- From the book I made with a counselor my first week of school -- Second attempt crossing -- El Salvador -- On a dirt road outside Oaxaca -- Cassette tape -- To President-Elect -- Pump water from the well -- Instructions for my funeral -- Montage with mangoes, volcano, and flooded streets -- the pier of La Herradura -- Dancing in buses -- How to enlist -- Documentary -- ARENA -- "Don Chepe" -- Disappeared -- Rooftop -- This was the field -- Politics -- Aftermath -- For Israel and Maria de los Angeles -- Crybaby -- Abuelita Neli's garden with parakeets named Chepito -- I don't want to speak of "Don Chepe" -- How I learned to walk -- Postpartum -- "Ponele Queso Bischo" means put cheese on it kid -- Then, it was so -- Mom responds to her shaming -- Alterations -- Aubade -- Prayer -- Abuelita says goodbye -- Let me try again -- Citizenship -- San Francisco Bay and "Mt. Tam" -- Doctor's office first week in this country -- Vows -- Nocturn -- Deportation letter -- Seeing your mother again -- Exiliados -- June 10, 1999.

ISBN

• 9781556595110
• 1556595115

LCCN

^^2017022737

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library