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Title Poetry of resistance : voices for social justice / edited by Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez ; foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera
Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016

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Series Camino del sol : a Latina and Latino literary series
Camino del sol.
Contents Foreword: They Carry Butterflies in Their Hands by Juan Felipe Herrera; Introduction by Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez; Francisco X. Alarcón; Para los nueve del capitolio / For the Capitol Nine; Invocation; Borderless Compassion; JoAnn Anglin -- Portions; Francisco Aragón -- Poem with a Phrase of Isherwood; Cathy Arellano -- End of an Affair; Jorge Tetl Argueta -- Nuestros niños y niñas / Our Children; Adrián Arias -- Tattoo SB 1070; Víctor Ávila -- Looking Through Chain Link at McAllen Station; AvotcjaLa regla de los ladrones / The Law of Thieves
Devreaux Baker -- Reasonable Suspicion -- The Conqueror's DreamKristopher Barney -- Lightning on a Black Night over the Chuska Mountains; Virginia Barrett -- Slaughters and Shifts and Migrations-Arizona; Esmeralda Bernal -- Listen Child; Sarah Browning -- The Flag of Touch; Carmen Calatayud; Border Ghost of Sonora; Awakening at Night; Xánath Caraza -- Hoy mujeres y hombres / Today Women and Men; Héctor Carbajal -- On the Border, We Dream; Elizabeth Cazessús -- Niño traga fuegos; Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Olmecan Eyes; Ana Chig -- Del puente al arco
Jabez W. Churchill- Reconsider the Lilies / Considerad de nuevo las azucenasAntoinette Nora Claypoole -- The New West; Karen S. Córdova -- Sonnet for Police Officers Charged with Enforcing SB 1070; Iris De Anda -- To Be a Pocha or Not to Be; Nephtalí De León -- Capitol Poetry; Susan Deer Cloud -- Your America, My Turtle Island; Elena Díaz Björkquist; Before the World Wakes; Two Missing Men, One White, One Brown, One Rich, One Not So Rich; James Downs -- There Is a Fence Around My Heart; Qwo-Li Driskill -- A Ceremony for Reclaiming Language; Sharon Doubiago -- Border; Sharon Elliot -- Border Crossing
Mario Ángel Escobar -- La voz del inmigrante / Immigrant VoicesMartín Espada -- Isabel's Corrido; Odilia Galván Rodríguez; Giving Voice; Border Inquest Blues; Collecting Thoughts from the Universe; Daniel García Ordaz -- Immigrant Crossing; Nancy Aidé González; The Ones Who Live On; La Virgen de las Calles; Sonia Gutiérrez; Mi bandera / My Flag; Grandchildren of the United Fruit Company; Israel Francisco Haros López -- Cerrando Herida; Gabriel Hartley -- Sand and Bone Desert Spark; Ralph Haskins -- Juan Mercado; Claudia D. Hernández -- Kim ayu (Vení pa'ca); Andrea Hernández Holm; Where We Belong
In Response to the Man Who Asked, "Why Do Your People March for Everything?"Juan Felipe Herrera -- Arizona Green (Manifesto #1070); Mari Herreras -- A Prayer to Santa Cebolla; Susana de Jesús Huerta -- Our Children Are Not Anchors; Aurora Levins Morales -- Grave Song for Immigrant Soldier; Genny Lim; The Same Thing; The Remembered; Mark Lipman -- The Border Crossed Us; César Love -- Trespasser Shoes; Manuel Lozano; Insist and Resist ; My Sweet Dream / My Living Nightmare: Adobe Walls; Devorah Major -- On Issues of Aliens and Immigration; John Martínez -- The Line
Andrea García Mauk -- Nunca, Nunca, Nunca: The Corrido of South Phoenix
Summary "The book is a timely response via verse to the current political climate of Arizona, though what it ultimately argues is that these injustices have always been taking place: SB 1070 is simply its most recent manifestation"--Provided by publisher
Notes Chiefly in English with several poems in Spanish; some poems in English and Spanish, and one poem in Irish
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Subject Protest poetry, Spanish American.
Hispanic Americans -- Arizona -- Poetry
POETRY -- American -- Hispanic American.
Emigration and immigration
Hispanic Americans
Protest poetry, Spanish American
SUBJECT Arizona -- Emigration and immigration -- Poetry
Subject Arizona
Genre/Form poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
Author Herrera, Juan Felipe, writer of foreword
Galván Rodríguez, Odilia, editor
Alarcón, Francisco X., 1954-2016, editor
ISBN 9780816533879
0816533873