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- Speaking Wiri Wiri
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
Winner of the inaugural Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize, Dan Vera's Speaking Wiri Wiri is a work of historical insight and wry wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it meditates on the challenges of multiple identities, ethnicity, geographies of migration, familial displacement, popular history, and more.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 11-14
- Section 1. The Trouble with Language
- pp. 15-16
- Tower of Babel
- pp. 20-21
- Small Shame Blues
- p. 23
- Section 2. The Trouble with Borders
- pp. 25-26
- Lago de Mil Ojos
- p. 29
- Queen Anne’s Lace
- p. 31
- Monarch Butterfly
- p. 32
- Section 3. The Trouble with Memory
- pp. 35-36
- Norse Saga
- p. 37
- The Interrogation of Poetry
- pp. 40-41
- Handsome Caudillos
- pp. 46-47
- Section 4. The Memory of the Tongue
- pp. 51-52
- Mamá Makes the Local Paper
- pp. 53-54
- The Forgotten Fruit of Cuba
- pp. 58-59
- Apparition
- p. 61
- The Cuban Friendship Urn
- pp. 68-69
- Commemorations of Forgotten History
- pp. 70-71
- About the Author
- p. 80
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597092845
Related ISBN(s)
9781597092746
MARC Record
OCLC
867739480
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
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