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Book

Unaccompanied

Call Number

  • 811 Z25 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2017]

Physical Description

x, 94 pages ; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Summary

"This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-button political issues of immigration and border crossings"--

Notes

"A Lannan literary selection"--Page [4] of cover.

Contents

  • To Abuelita Neli
  • Saguaros
  • from The book I made with a counselor my first week of school
  • Second attempt crossing
  • El Salvador
  • On a dirt road outside Oaxaca
  • Cassette tape
  • To President-Elect
  • Pump water from the well
  • Instructions for my funeral
  • Montage with mangoes, volcano, and flooded streets
  • The pier of La Herradura
  • Dancing in buses
  • How to enlist
  • Documentary
  • ARENA
  • "Don Chepe"
  • Disappeared
  • Rooftop
  • This was the field
  • Politics
  • Aftermath
  • For Israel and María de los Ángeles
  • Crybaby
  • Abuelita Neli's garden with parakeets named Chepito
  • I don't want to speak of "Don Chepe"
  • How I learned to walk
  • Postpartum
  • "Ponele Queso Bischo" means put cheese on it kid
  • Then, it was so
  • Mom responds to her shaming
  • Alterations
  • Aubade
  • Prayer
  • Abuelita says goodbye
  • Let me try again
  • Citizenship
  • San Francisco Bay and "Mt. Tam"
  • Doctor's office first week in this country
  • Vows
  • Nocturne
  • Deportation letter
  • Seeing your mother again
  • Exiliados
  • June 10, 1999.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.