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Little Havana blues : a Cuban-American literature anthology

Author: Delia Poey; Virgil Suárez
Publisher: Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Collection of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by Cuban-Americans.
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Genre/Form: Literary collections
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Little Havana blues.
Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 1996
(OCoLC)604933703
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Delia Poey; Virgil Suárez
ISBN: 1558851607 9781558851603
OCLC Number: 34515707
Description: 444 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Poetry --
The Jewish cemetery in Guanabacoa ; My grandmother in Miami Beach who sees everything in blue ; Returning / Ruth Behar --
America ; Letters for Mamá ; Crayons for Elena / Richard Blanco --
El curandero (the healer) ; Belonging ; For J.W. ; The test / Rafael Campo --
Looking South ; Abuelo Leopoldo sneaks a bite of cream cheese ; Santería / Sandra Castillo --
In the tradition of returning ; To the rumba players of Belén, Cuba / Adrian Castro --
Between language and desire ; Floating ; First shift at Hershey's , 4 a.m. ; Janis Joplin / Silvia Curbelo --
My two languages ; Funk indigo ; The story of L. / Jorge Guitart --
Geography jazz ; Blake in the tropics ; Freedom / Carolina Hospital --
Havana blues ; Forgotten memory ; Los Diegos / Wasabi Kanastoga --
Only the truly beautiful go mad ; History as a second language ; Pain / Dionisio Martínez --
Cuba ; Flight out of Miami ; Why I look out windows ; Cuban lullaby / Pablo Medina --
Etiquette ; Stand ; Second-hand / Gean Moreno --
Sugarcane ; Kimberle ; Sunday / Achy Obejas --
Charada China ; Exile / Ricardo Pau-Llosa --
Lime cure ; On whether my father deserves a poem ; What's wrong with me / Gustavo Pérez Firmat --
III. Benediction ; VII. Madrid ; X. Lidia, Rey, and Jorge : a song ; XIV. Nomenclature / E.J. Vega --
Fiction --
The admiral cursed / Jose Barreiro --
On the moring of his arrest / Margarita Engle --
The last supper / Roberto G. Fernández --
Inés in the kitchen / Cristina García --
Cuba, Cuba, 1954 / Oscar Hijelos --
I'm holding his hand / Elias Miguel Muñoz --
The homecoming / Andrea O'Reilly Herrera --
The defector / Ricardo Pau-Llosa --
Paloma / Beatriz Rivera --
Headshots / Virgil Suárez --
Liberation in Little Havana / Marisella Veiga --
The guns in the closet / Jose Yglesias --
Drama --
Once upon a future / Matias Montes Huidobro --
Coser y cantar / Dolores Prida --
Memories of my father's family during his self-imposed exile / Omar Torres --
Essay --
Lost in translation ; Spic'n Spanish ; Desi does it ; The barber of Little Havana ; Mirror, mirror ; English is broken here / Gustavo Pérez Firmat --
Arrival : 1960 / Pablo Medina --
Negrita / Cecilia Rodriguez Milaneś --
Bitterness / Virgil Suárez.
Responsibility: edited by Delia Poey and Virgil Suárez.

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Collection of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by Cuban-Americans.

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