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Like Sonia Sanchez and Sandra Cisneros, Pat Mora draws on oral and lyrical traditions; she reclaims the history and culture of her Mexican roots, especially real and imagined Mexican women of the past, from a tribute to Frida Kahlo to an interview with an Aztec goddess.
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Mexican American women--Poetry, Mexican Americans--Poetry.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PS3563.O73A72 1995eb
ddc
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811/.54
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Mexican American women--Poetry, Mexican Americans--Poetry.
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Agua Santa
Holy Water
Pat Mora
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Beacon Press 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892
Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
1995 by Pat Mora ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Printed in the United States of America
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Mora, Pat. Agua santa = Holy water / Pat Mora. p. cm. ISBN 0-8070-6828-4 1. Mexican American womenPoetry. 2. Mexican Americans Poetry. I. Title. PS3563.073A72 1995 811'.54dc20 95-6024 CIP
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for VERN SCARBOROUGH treasured water scholar
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
xi
Old Sea
The Loving Strip
3
Ofrenda for Lobo
5
Oasis
6
Ballena
8
Another Brown Man
9
The Shadow
11
Corazn del corrido
12
Rivers
Aurelia: Moon Jellies
19
A Child, a Child
20
Mama Spell
22
Braided
24
The Weight of a Life
25
The Lure
26
Feeding the Winds
27
La dulcera
29
A River of Women
31
Descent
It May Be Dangerous
35
Sly Woman
37
Cuidado
39
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Spring Shining
40
There Was a Woman
42
Nunca, nunca
43
Descent into Boca del Lagarto
45
The Man
47
Dear Frida
49
January in Cincinnati
53
Where We Were Born
Litany to the Dark Goddess
57
Cuarteto Mexicano
Coatlicue's Rules: Advice from an Aztec Goddess
60
Malinche's Tips: Pique from Mexico's Mother
64
Consejos de Nuestra Seora de Guadalupe: Counsel from the Brown Virgin
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