I ask the impossible
Subtitle: poems
By: Ana Castillo
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9780385720731
Subjects: Mexican American women; Poetry
Description: A collection of poems covering the author's commitment to social justice, the sensual world, and the strength of women, six of which are written in Spanish with English translations.
Table of contents: title: I Ask the Impossible --; title: El Chicle --; title: No Dogs or Mexicans Allowed --; title: Waterbird Medicine --; title: Mi volador --; title: You Are Real as Earth y mas --; title: A Nahua Woman's Love --; title: Anna Mae Aquash --; title: Nothing But This at the End --; title: The Desert as Antidote: Verano, 1997 --; title: A Small Scorpion --; title: I Heard the Cries of Two Hundred Children --; title: "Never Again a Mexico Without Us"--Comandante Ramona --; title: 1999 --; title: Burra, Yo --; title: Burra, Me --; title: La Burra confunde la amistad con un cuerazo --; title: La Burra Mistakes Friendship with a Lashing --; title: La Amiga regresa a educar a la burra --; title: The Friend Comes Back to Teach the Burra --; title: I Did Not Think She Was Beautiful--Then --; title: Coatlicue's Legacy --; title: "Like the people of Guatemala, I want to be free of these memories..."--Sister Dianna Ortiz --; title: De quien es la paz? --; title: Whose Peace Is It? --; title: I Saw Peru --; title: Dear Pope: Open Letter from the Americas --; title: Los Angeles: A Report --; title: Recipes for a Welfare Mother --; title: Women Don't Riot --; title: Cabrona con corazon/Goat Woman with a Heart --; title: Since the Creation of My Son and My First Book --; title: For Marcel Ramon from His Mother at Sea --; title: La Wild Woman --; title: What Is Not Found in Paintings or Books --; title: Tatehuari --; title: Tatehuari --; title: I Decide Not to Fall in Love --; title: Ydonde se encuentra Dios? --; title: Where Can We Find God? --; title: On the Meaning of Things --; title: Hummingbird Heart --; title: Nani Worries About Her Father's Happiness in the Afterlife --; title: Dia de muertos --; title: How Does It Feel to Be Cruel to a Woman? --; title: For My Child Who Became a Man in His Thirteenth Year --; title: A Little Prayer for the Trees --; title: For Alberto and Selena --; title: Death Is Only What It Is.