Little Havana Blues; A Cuban-American Literature Anthology Book

	Introduction	9
	The Jewish Cemetery in Guanabacoa	20
	My Grandmother in Miami Beach Who Sees Everything in Blue	23
	Returning	26
	America	28
	Letters for Mama	33
	Crayons for Elena	35
	El Curandero (The Healer)	37
	Belonging	39
	For J. W.	40
	The Test	41
	Looking South	42
	Abuelo Leopoldo Sneaks a Bite of Cream Cheese	43
	Santeria	45
	In the Tradition of Returning	47
	To the Rumba Players of Belen, Cuba	52
	Between Language and Desire	56
	Floating	57
	First Shift at Hershey's, 4 a.m	59
	Janis Joplin	61
	My Two Languages	63
	Funk Indigo	64
	The Story of L	65
	Geography Jazz	66
	Blake in the Tropics	69
	Freedom	70
	Havana Blues	71
	Forgotten Memory	73
	Los Diegos	75
	Only the Truly Beautiful Go Mad	77
	History as a Second Language	79
	Pain	81
	Cuba	82
	Flight Out of Miami	84
	Why I Look Out Windows	85
	Cuban Lullaby	86
	Etiquette	87
	Stand	89
	Second-Hand	90
	Sugarcane	92
	Kimberle	95
	Sunday	96
	Charada China	98
	Exile	101
	Lime Cure	102
	On Whether My Father Deserves a Poem	104
	What's Wrong with Me	105
	III. Benediction	106
	VII. Madrid	107
	X. Lidia, Rey, and Jorge: a Song	108
	XIV. Nomenclature	109
	The Admiral Cursed	112
	On the Morning of His Arrest	122
	The Last Supper	132
	Ines in the Kitchen	152
	Cuba, Cuba, 1954	158
	I'm Holding His Hand	172
	The Homecoming	192
	The Defector	200
	Paloma	215
	Headshots	240
	Liberation in Little Havana	262
	The Guns in the Closet	276
	Once Upon a Future	300
	Coser y Cantar	326
	Memories of My Father's Family during His Self-Imposed Exile	351
	Lost in Translation	392
	Spic'n Spanish	393
	Desi Does It	395
	The Barber of Little Havana	397
	Mirror, Mirror	398
	English is Broken Here	400
	Arrival: 1960	402
	Negrita	407
	Bitterness	420
	Contributors' Biographies	423
	Bibliography	441