Title CrashBoomLove A Novel in Verse

Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (115 p.) Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Dedication Page -- The Mirror: Por el Canto se Conoce al Pájaro. A Bird is known by its Song. -- Last Photograph with My Father -- Mama Lucy's Address Book -- Canadá in English -- Can Opener at the Bottom of the Sea -- The Bays of Fundy -- White Boy Shoes -- Mama Lucy's Story -- WireSpeak -- Broken Fingernails: El Perro Manda al Gato, y el Gato a su Cola. The Dog Bosses the Cat, and the Cat its Tail. -- Behind the Target -- I think about My Father -- Dance to Selena -- Erase Everything after School -- Broken Fingernails -- Requirements -- Walls & -- Islands -- Fly into a Sock -- Los Heroes on F Street -- The Scream in Mr. Petrich's Art Class -- Drawing Wires across the Page -- Seal Boy -- Goldfish -- Captain Krunch -- Kmart Specials -- Culture Night at Rambling West -- The Deer & -- The Jaguar -- Sammy Flies over the Fence -- One Block West of the St. James Retirement Hotel -- From Stones to Water -- Hanging in Space: El Pez Por su Boca Muere. A Fish Dies by its Mouth. -- 2 X 4s -- Orientation -- 1. Papeles -- 2. Snack Bar -- 3. Circles of Fire -- Paganini & -- Hawaii -- Become an Oboe -- Cantatas in the Morning -- Blue Fire -- Hanging in Space -- Yellow Room: Todo Cambia. Everything Changes. -- Yellow Room -- A Capella: El Agua es Blanda, La Piedra Dura, Pero, Gota a Gota, Hace Cavadura. Water is Soft, Rocks are Hard, but, Drop by Drop, Water Finds a Way. -- Beginning (At the Bus Stop) -- Birds Fly in a Bird Shape -- Sentence Structure -- A Capella Summary In this novel in verse--unprecedented in Chicano literature--renowned poet Juan Felipe Herrera illuminates the soul of a generation. Drawn from his own life as well as a lifetime of dedication to young people, CrashBoomLove helps readers understand what it is to be a teen, a migrant worker, and a boy wanting to be a boy Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Mexican American high school students -- Juvenile fiction Mexican American teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction Fatherless families -- Juvenile fiction Children of single parents -- Juvenile fiction Children of single parents Fatherless families Mexican American high school students Mexican American teenage boys Genre/Form Fiction Juvenile works Form Electronic book ISBN 9780826323446 0826323448

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