The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry

Acknowledgments

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following magazines in which some of the works in this book first appeared, sometimes in slightly different versions or under different titles: Americas Review: "Jiiana: An Old Story," "Paciencia," "Saint Rose of Lima," and "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica." Copyright Arte Publico Press of the University of Houston, 1988, 1991, and 1992. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Antioch Review: "The Life of an Echo" Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingiie (vol. 17, no. 2, p. 161): "My Grandfather's Hat." Copyright 1992, The Bilingual Review/Press of Arizona State University(Tempe, Ariz.). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Cream City Review: "Orar: To Pray" Georgia Review: Nada Glamour: "How to Get a Baby" and The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria Haydens Ferry Review: 5:00 A.M.: Writing As Ritual Indiana Review: "The Game" Kenyon Review: "They Never Grew Old," "An Early Mystery," "A Legion of Dark Angels," Not ForSale, and The Witch's Husband Lullwater Review: "Blood" Missouri Review: Advanced Biology National Forum: "The Lesson of the Teeth" XI /Acknowledgments Nomad: "Absolution in the New Year" Parnassus: "Nothing Wasted," "To Grandfather, Now Forgetting," and "Vida" Passages North: "Fever" and "Counting" Prairie Schooner: "Unspoken," "Hostages to Fortune," and "The Changeling." Reprinted from Prairie Schooner by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1992 University ofNebraska Press. Sing Heavenly Muse! "Women Who Love Angels" South Florida Poetry Review:"Anniversary" Southern Poetry Review: "The Campesino's Lament," "Old Women," "How to Get a Baby," and "To a Daughter I Cannot Console" Witness: The Paterson Public Library A version of the folktale "The Witch's Husband," translatedby Judith Ortiz Gofer, was first published by the Pig Iron Press Anthology of Third World Writers, 1988. The author also expresses her gratitude to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Georgia Council for the Arts, and the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry for their support during the years when many of the works in this book were written. Thanks also to Rafael Ocasio, Edna Acosta-Belen, and Madelaine Cooke; to Malcolm Call and Karen Orchard, for their guidance and encouragement; and also, as always, to John Gofer. xn The Latin Deli This page intentionally left blank ...