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Camino del Sol Lighting a Path for Chicano/Latino Literature in the New Millennium | |
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Poetry | |
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From the Other Side of Night/Del otro lado de la noche | |
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Del otro lado de la noche/From the Other Side of Night | |
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Plegaria de amor/Love Plea | |
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�Tlazolt�otl! | |
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Tlazolteotl! | |
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Oraci�n del desierto/Desert Prayer | |
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Home Movies of Narcissus | |
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Amateur Filmmaker | |
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People of the Pi�ata | |
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That Flag | |
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Directions to the Beach of the Dead | |
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When I Was a Little Cuban Boy | |
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Translation for Mam� | |
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In the City of Smoking Mirrors | |
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H. Writes to His Brother to Assure Him of Continuous Comfort in the Afterlife | |
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Animal Time | |
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El Espejo Fumeroso | |
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In an Angry Season | |
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The Conjuror of the New Century | |
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The Tattoo Artist | |
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The Bad Wife | |
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A Rush of Hands | |
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Shrine | |
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Backyard | |
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Nido | |
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Work Done Right | |
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Chilalengua | |
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Club Las Palmas | |
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Pig | |
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The Tovar Bull | |
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A Question of Gravity and Light | |
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To Know You Better | |
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This | |
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Letter from the Cumberland | |
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Epilogue | |
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The Keepsake Storm | |
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Darkling | |
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The Walk Like Old Habits | |
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Where the Bodies, Half-Dressed, in Pieces | |
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When Living Was a Labor Camp | |
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When living was a labor camp called Montgomery | |
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Softball and Tomato Fields | |
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Operation Wetback, 1953 | |
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POEMA | |
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Lyric | |
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At the Podium | |
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What Baby Gertrude Heard | |
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border-crosser with a lamborghini dream | |
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blood night caf� | |
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selena in corpus christi lacquer red | |
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Giraffe on Fire | |
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Ofelia in Manhattan, Circa 1943 | |
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Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler | |
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Immigrant Fortune Teller Machine | |
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Fuzzy Equations | |
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Letan�a para Jos� Antonio Burciaga | |
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Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, & My Mother | |
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Salzbergwerk: The Salt Mines Tour | |
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Cue Lazarus | |
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Light Show | |
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A Prayer for My Brother | |
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Breathing Between the Lines | |
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Discovering America | |
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The Devil's Workshop | |
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Remedios | |
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Class Action | |
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World to World | |
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Heritage | |
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World to World | |
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Bowl | |
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Wish | |
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How Long She'll Last in This World | |
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Backcountry, Emigrant Gap | |
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In Birut�'s Camp | |
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Why Can't We All Just Get Along? | |
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Adobe Odes | |
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Ode to Readers | |
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Ode to a Book | |
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Ode to El Paso | |
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Ode to Women | |
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Blood Mysteries | |
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Pi�i�n Nuts | |
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Why I'm Not Someone Else | |
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Elegy for Desire | |
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The Luxury of Darkness | |
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The Disappearance of My Wife | |
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Elegy for Desire | |
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Palm Crows | |
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Animalia | |
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El exilio | |
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Margo Tamez | |
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Naked Wanting | |
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First Choice | |
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For Keeps | |
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What i'm on | |
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dear reader: this is what i thought on easter day | |
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Section 7 | |
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radio | |
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esau past love | |
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on Tuesday, when the homeless disappeared | |
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The Deer | |
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El Salvador, 1932-1981 | |
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Fiction | |
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excerpt from The Region of Lost Names | |
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excerpt from Samba Dreamers | |
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excerpt from If I Die in Juarez | |
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Brides and Sinners in El Chuco | |
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A Scenic Night | |
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Small Time | |
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Inner View | |
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Snapping Lines | |
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La Luz | |
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Lost | |
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El Milagro and Other Stories | |
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La Tortillera/The Tortilla Maker | |
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Amor Eterno: Eleven Lessons in Love | |
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Amor Desesperado/Desperate Love | |
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The Truth about Alicia and Other Stories | |
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The Ring | |
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El Beb� del Vaquer�n | |
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excerpt from The Peruvian Notebooks | |
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The Last Tortilla and Other Stories | |
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The Snake | |
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Punching Chickens | |
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Nonfiction | |
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Of Earth and Sea: A Chilean Memoir | |
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Words | |
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Violeta Parra | |
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November 1, The Day of the Dead | |
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Nights of Exile | |
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And Finally, Returning | |
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The Illusion of a Firefly | |
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The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing | |
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My Week as a Mexican | |
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Found in Translation | |
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The Woman Who Loved Water | |
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The Underground Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape | |
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The Border Is Open | |
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Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays | |
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excerpts from A Different Border | |
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nobody's son: notes from an american life | |
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Nobody's Son | |
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Source Credits | |
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About the Editor | |
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About the Contributors | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index of Authors | |