My father was a Toltec and selected poems, 1973-1988 / Ana Castillo

Object Details

Author

Castillo, Ana

Contents

The Toltec -- Electra Currents -- Red Wagons -- Saturdays -- The Suede Coat -- Dirty Mexican -- For Ray -- Daddy with Chesterfields in a Rolled Up Sleeve -- Alternatives -- For No One, Or Perhaps You -- Woman of Marrakech -- Recordando un disparate -- An Ugly Black Dog Named Goya -- Encuentros -- Mi Comadre me aconseja -- La Heredera -- Lamento de Coatlicue -- Todo me recuerda tu ausencia -- Poem -- For Jean Rhys -- Ixtacihutl Died in Vain -- La Carta -- Traficante, Too -- Wyoming Crossing Thoughts -- A Marriage of Mutes -- Martes en Toledo -- Tejido de pelo y dientes -- Guadalupe -- Cherry Stained Lips and Thick Thighs -- Lunes -- Donde Empezar? -- I Am the Daughter/Mother Who Has Learned -- A Christmas Gift for the President of the United States, Chicano Poets, and a Marxist or Two I've Known in my Time -- Everywhere I Go -- El sueno -- Entre primavera y otono -- Zoila Lopez -- Me & Baby -- Paco and Rosa -- Cold -- Tomas de Utrera's First Poem of Spring -- We Would Like You to Know -- No solo el ser chilena -- Someone Told Me -- Esta mano -- In My Country -- Women Are Not Roses -- An Idyll -- La Tristesse -- Dices -- A November Verse -- From "A Letter to Alicia" -- Not Just Because My Husband Said -- Seduction of the Poetess -- Si acaso -- Cartas -- Whole -- The Invitation -- Dance of the Nebulae -- Despues de probar (la manzana) -- Tierra del Fuego -- Tango (de la luna) -- Coffee Break -- What Only Lovers -- 1975 -- Milagros -- El ser mujer -- A Christmas Carol: c. 1976 -- Napa, California -- A Counter-Revolutionary Proposition -- Strategy -- Juego -- La una y cuarto -- Last Sunday -- Invierno salvaje -- Our Tongue Was Nahuatl

Summary

Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of passion and uncompromising commitment. This collection brings back into print the best of her early work, including selected poems from The Invitation and Women Are Not Roses and the entire text of her landmark 1988 collection, My Father Was a Toltec. Whether invoking her origins as the daughter of a street warrior, a member of the Toltec gang in Chicago, or defining her own lyrical positions on a variety of social, political, sexual, and esthetic issues, Ana Castillo's poetic voice is unmistakably her own - and will be immediately recognizable to the lovers of her fiction.

1995

©1995

Type

Poetry

Physical description

xxi, 158 pages ; 21 cm

Place

Chicago (Ill.)

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Hispanic Americans

Gangs

Record ID

siris_sil_1038267

Metadata Usage (text)

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