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Product Identifiers
PublisherSalt Publishing
ISBN-101844710637
ISBN-139781844710638
eBay Product ID (ePID)46582378
Product Key Features
Book TitleZen of La Llorona
Number of Pages124 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicGeneral, American / General
GenrePoetry
AuthorDeborah A. Miranda
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight6.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal811.54
Table Of ContentThe Legend(s) of the Weeping Woman; Part One: Passage; Passage; Three Months Without Electricity; Petroglyph; Deer; Sisters in Rain; Jenny; Almost a Pantoum for My Mother; After San Quentin; Last Confession; The Zen of La Llorona; Our Lady of Perpetual Loss; November Leaves; Forty; I'm Lost; April Sixteenth; Swarm; Things My Mother Taught Me; Advice from La Llorona; First Step; Part Two: Drowning; Drowning; Tongues; Duende; Echolocation; La Llorona's Daughter; Sleeping Beauty, 1978; Chianti; The Twin Sister Your Mother Never Mentioned; The Place Where Grief and Rage Live; Husband; 10%; Driving Past Suicide for Three Novembers; Separation; Ex; The Language of Prophets; Heron; Part Three: A Trick of Grace; A Trick of Grace; Arrow Song; From a Dream, I Wake to Tender Music; Love Poem to a Butch Woman; Mesa Verde; Music Like Red Earth; First Time; Steele Street; A Ceremony for Giving You Up; Clean; Shopping; Old Territory. New Maps.; Dawn; Burning the Baskets (triptych); Part Four: Dar a Luz (Giving Birth); Dar a Luz; Portrait of the Beloved as a Young Lifeguard; Smoke; My Moon; Home; Fencing Out the Deer; Satiate; Shenandoah; When I Think of You; Leaving Oz; Tenderness; Highway 126; Mitzvah; dia de las muertas
SynopsisHow does a damaged child grow up to be a loving, strong adult woman? These poems explore survivorship, tracing an American Indian woman's life from conception to mid-life. Along the way such themes as domestic violence, abandonment, racism, rape, addiction, marriage, motherhood and falling in love with another Indian woman are addressed in lyric poetry. These poems teach us how to survive destruction without becoming destroyers ourselves; how the elements of earth, love, community and work nurture creation and manifest hope., A collection of poetry that goes beyond initial concerns with personal racial identity. It complicates that indigenous identity with visceral explorations of gendered violence, sexual orientation and mothering in an unpredictable, chaotic world.