Latino Boom: An Anthology of U. S. Latino Literature Book

Pt. I	U.S. Latino literature : an overview	7
Ch. 1	Latino narrative	9
Ch. 2	Latino poetry	18
Ch. 3	Latino landscapes	25
Pt. II	Readings in Latino literature	45
Ch. 4	The lost worlds : once upon a Latin moon	47
	In search of Epifano	52
	The biggest city in the world	56
	One holy night	66
	Red serpent Ceviche	71
	La Promesa	74
	Confusing the saints	88
	Roots	97
	Dust bowl memory	99
	Abuelas	100
	African things	100
	Finding home	101
	Mami	102
	Curandera	103
	The Latin deli : an Ars Poetica	104
	Frutas	106
	The first woman	107
	History	108
	Go north, young man	110
Ch. 5	The working world : sweating under a new sun	121
	Se me enchina el cuerpo al oir tu cuento ...	124
	Tito's goodbye	126
	Al, in Phoenix	129
	Invisible country	139
	The child	149
	The Cariboo cafe	157
	Woman's work	168
	Work we hate and dreams we love	169
	Who burns for the perfection of paper	169
	Jorge the church janitor finally quits	170
	Federico's ghost	171
	When living was a labor camp called Montgomery	172
	Because no one should say 'Chavez who?'	173
	Blake in the tropics	174
	Hungry	174
	The elements of San Joaquin	176
	Mexicans begin jogging	181
	Pachucos and the taxi cab brigade	181
Ch. 6	The urban world : weaving through city streets	192
	Bread	195
	Edison, New Jersey	196
	Love in L.A.	205
	My life in the city	207
	Neighbors	217
	Psalm for Coquito	229
	Freeway 280	230
	Beneath the shadow of the freeway	231
	Their poem	233
	Grand Central Station	237
	Reflections on the metro north, winter 1990	238
	Puerto Rican obiturary	243
	La Bodgega sold dreams	250
	A Lower East Side poem	250
	In the dark backward	253
	Real women have curves	254
	Meet the Satanicos	299
Ch. 7	The fringe world : outside looking in, inside looking out	307
	Rage is a fallen angel	309
	Somewhere outside Duc Pho	322
	The man on Jesus Street - dreaming	333
	The boy without a flag	338
	The Barbosa Express	350
	Bilingual Sestina	360
	A Coqui in Nueva York	361
	Here	362
	Autobrownography of a New England Latino	363
	Caribbean Fresco in New England	366
	AmeRican	367
	Birthday	368
	Elena	369
	Legal alien	370
	The welder	370
	Ending poem	372
	Sugarcane	373
	The Vietnam Wall	375
	Letter to Ti	376
	Where you from?	377
	Peruana Perdida	379
	Cloud tectonics	381
	La conciencia de la mestiza : towards a new consciousness	413
Ch. 8	Beyond worlds : beyond the boom	431
	Horologist	433
	Fulgencio Llanos : El Fotografo	450
	Soy la Avon lady	459
	The documentary artist	475
	After Elian	484
	We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this?	499
	Notes for a botched suicide	510
	Obliterate the night	518
	Body bee calling : from the 21st century	533
	Women are not roses	534
	Puerto Rican discovery #11 : samba rumba cha-cha be-bop hip-hop	535
	Gringolandia	536
	The pure preposition	537
	Plein air	537
	Annie says	538
	Chisme at Rivera's studio	540
	Variation on a theme by William Carlos Williams	542
	Scene from the movie Giant	542
	At the holocaust museum : Washington, D.C.	543
	The story of my body	546