Cervantes, Lorna Dee. <br/><br/>
Emplumada / 
Lorna Dee Cervantes. 
 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :  University of Pittsburgh Press,  1981. 
 - 68 pages ;  21 cm. 
 - Pitt poetry series .
 - Pitt poetry series .
<br/><br/> Includes a glossary of Spanish words and phrases (page 67).  "The publication of this book is supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., a Federal agency, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts." 
<br/><br/>I. Uncle's first rabbit -- Cannery Town in August -- The anthill -- Lots: I -- Lots: II -- Meeting Mescalito at Oak Hill Cemetery -- Beneath the shadow of the freeway -- For Edward Long -- For Virginia Chavez -- Crow -- Communication -- Caribou girl. II. The prayer pressed between the waves -- Four portraits of fire -- Starfish -- In January -- Spiders -- From where we sit: Corpus Christi -- An interpretation of dinner by the uninvited guest -- Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person could believe in the war between races -- To my brother -- Freeway -- Barco de refugiados -- Refugee ship -- Poema para los Californios muertos -- Oaxaca, 1974 -- Visions of Mexico while at a writing symposium in Port Townsend, Washington. III. This morning -- Café Solo -- Beetles -- For all you know -- Como lo siento -- The body as braille -- Moonwalkers -- Shells -- Before you go -- For John on the Cape -- Oranges -- Emplumada. 
<br/><br/> "Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes’s first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience." -- publisher 
<br/><br/><br/>Some poems are in Spanish.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0822934361 :  $9.95 0822953277 (pbk.) :  $4.50 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>80054063  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Spanish american poetry<br/>Spanish american poetry--History and criticism<br/>Mexican American women in literature<br/>American poetry--Mexican American authors
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 3553 .E79  / E47 1981 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811/.54