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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 | |