Flamenco Hips and Red Mud Feet
Publication Year: 2010
In the two sections of the book—“Inside” and “Outside”—parallelism and symmetry interact with themes both public and private. Flamenco Hips and Red Mud Feet presents thirty-nine poems in free verse and traditional poetic forms, especially the sonnet and adaptations of the sonnet. The sonnet—usually consisting of the octet (eight lines) that sets up the main idea of the poem and the sestet (six lines) that resolves, answers or completes the poem—is a natural form for a poet whose identity is divided. Double sonnets and “double-linked sonnets doubled” reflect the duality the poet feels inside her skin. And the poems written to and for a “lost sister” reinforce the theme.
Throughout this provocative book, Salazar navigates the alienation of her cultural in-between-ness. By the end, she appears to become more comfortable with her status of “outsider,” deciding that she doesn’t need to give in to pressures to pick a side or to accept others’ ideas of where her own “borders” begin or end.
Published by: University of Arizona Press
Contents
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pp. v-vi
Part I: Inside
Half and Half
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pp. 3-4
Subjunctive Mood
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pp. 5-8
Spelling It Out
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pp. 9-10
Stolen Names
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pp. 11-13
No Wonder
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pp. 14-16
You Could Say
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pp. 17-20
Nothing Para Nada
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pp. 21-22
Frost
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pp. 23-32
Dancing with the Skeletons
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pp. 33-37
Davy Crockett Meets Coronado
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pp. 38-41
Cornbread y Caracoles en Cielo
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pp. 42-43
Blue Waltz Perfume
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pp. 44-46
Ode to My Imaginary Sister
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pp. 47-
You Were There
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pp. 48-53
The Recipe
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pp. 54-57
Beach Walking with the Stones
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pp. 58-60
Part II: Outside
Cayucos Fog
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pp. 63-
Ode to a Boy at the Beach
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pp. 64-
America's Most Wanted
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pp. 65-67
Conductor's Lament
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pp. 68-
Art Lesson with the Hearing-Impaired
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pp. 69-71
Smoke Signals
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pp. 72-
Pruning Roses at Corcoran Prison
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pp. 73-74
Virgin Behind Security Bars
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pp. 75-76
Killdeer
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pp. 77-79
Stellar Jay Sonnet; The Parrot at Emerald Thrift
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pp. 80-82
Watching the Wizard of Oz on Spanish TV
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pp. 83-85
Overtime at the Paul Revere Motel
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pp. 86-87
Muscatel Sonnet
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pp. 88-
3-D Jesus
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pp. 89-90
Fiber-optic Angel
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pp. 91-92
Jesus Loves You at the Venus Beauty Salon - Fifth Avenue, Fresno
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pp. 93-96
Fixed-Income Sonnet
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pp. 97-
Yard Sale in the Fog
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pp. 98-99
Dusty Footsteps
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pp. 100-102
What's Amazing about Grace
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pp. 103-104
The Pull
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pp. 105-106
Long Ago the Same
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pp. 107-108
E-ISBN-13: 9780816503162
Print-ISBN-13: 9780816528516
Publication Year: 2010
