Goodbye, Mexico
Subtitle: poems of remembrance
By: edited by Sarah Cortez
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781680030044
Subjects: Poetry; American poetry
Table of contents: title: Mexico : cradle of myth. A Certain Lie About the Phoenix ; Stories ; Maya ; El Tajin ; The Right Foot of Juan de Oñate ; The Old Ones Warn of La Llorona ; The Red Hand at Kabah ; Mexico City, 1977 ; At a Luxury Resort ; La Llorona Plays the Role of Aztec Heroine ; La Llorona at Rio del Oro; title: Mexico : catch-basin of desire. La Llorona Plays the Role of Treacherous La Malinche ; First Mango ; Astral ; Por la libre ; Downpour ; The Elopement ; Husband, in Mexico ; The Parrots of Puerto Vallarta ; At El Mesón de los Poetas ; Photograph of an Indian Girl, Chiapas ; Diego on My Mind ; Homesick ; Portrait of Mexico; title: Mexico : always glistening. Cafe San Martin ; Triage ; On Days Like This, Undone ; Laurels from India (Oaxaca) ; Morelia ; The Innocence I Bought at the Border ; Pyramids, Mexico ; We are of a Tribe ; Near Mexico City ; 1946 : The War is Over ; Xalapa ; Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San Miguel ; Mole ; Transfiguration ; On the Highway of the Sun; title: Mexico : Prayer blossoming a path. Summons ; A place ot wait ; Border Town ; Mexico City : 36 Hours ; First Taste ; The Border Blaster ; All Night Bus ; On Narrow Streets ; Day of the Dead ; De un Día, Of a Day ; Milagros ; Wanting dawn; title: Mexico : labyrinth of labyrinths. Small Fires ; Learning Curve ; Mexico ; Sacred Sailors of the Gulf ; Eating Chimichangas in Zacatecas ; Mercado San Juan ; Isla de la Piedra ; Bus Tour ; The Burro and the Maguey ; Frida ; The Lady Bullfighter, Pat McCormick ; Hotel Jacarandas, 1972; title: Mexico : a broken place. Recovering the wounded deer ; Mercado de hierbas ; Plaza de la Constitución ; What he left behind ; Navigating Mexico ; Innocence ; A Broken Place ; Zaragoza Plaza 6:00 a.m. ; The Kentucky Club, Juarez ; Boys' Town, Ciudad Acuña ; La Llorona Transforms From Woman to Snake, Considering a Lover's Betrayal ; Santa Muerte Drives a White Escalade ; When the Ghosts Stay.