Beastgirl & other origin myths
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: YesYes Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
ISBN-13: 9781936919451
Subjects: Whites; Dominican Americans; Poetry; Blacks; Women
Other titles: Beastgirl and other origin myths
Description: A collection of folkloric poems centered on the historical, mythological, gendered, and geographic experiences of a first generation American woman.
Notes: Poems.

"A Vinyl 45 Blue Note edition"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: La ciguapa --; title: Brother myth --; title: Conversations --; title: Salt --; title: Pressing --; title: Stranger tells me my body be a temple --; title: First job --; title: It almost curdles my womb dry --; title: The true story of La Negra, a bio-myth --; title: Mami came to this country as a nanny --; title: Liminalities --; title: Beloved --; title: Pareja --; title: Dominican superstitions --; title: The dictator's brujas, or, Why I didn't grow up with Disney --; title: Regularization plan for foreigners, 1922 --; title: February 10th, 2015 --; title: Juan Dolio Beach --; title: La Santa Maria --; title: For the poet who told me rats aren't noble enough creatures for a poem --; title: La Ùltima Cacique.