Poetry of resistance : voices for social justice

Alarcón, Francisco X., 1954-2016 (editor.). Galván Rodríguez, Odilia, (editor.). Herrera, Juan Felipe, (writer of foreword.).

Summary: "The book is a timely response via verse to the current political climate of Arizona, though what it ultimately argues is that these injustices have always been taking place: SB 1070 is simply its most recent manifestation"--Provided by publisher.

Item details

ISBN: 9780816502790
ISBN: 081650279X
Physical Description: print
xvii, 197 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2016]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword : they carry butterflies in their hands / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Introduction / Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez -- Para los nueve del capitolio = For the Capitol Nine / Invocation / Borderless compassion / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Portions / JoAnn Anglin -- Poem with a phrase of Isherwood / Francisco Aragón -- End of an affair / Cathy Arellano -- Nestorius niños y niñas = Our children / Jorge Tetl Argueta -- Tattoo SB 1070 / Adrián Arias -- Looking through chain link at McAllen Station / Víctor Ávila -- La regla de los ladrones = The law of thieves / Avotcja -- Reasonable suspicion : the conqueror's dream / Devreaux Baker -- Lightning on a black night over the Chuska Mountains / Kristopher Barney -- Slaughters and shifts and migrations : Arizona / Virginia Barrett -- Listen child / Esmeralda Bernal -- The flag of touch / Sarah Browning -- Border ghost of Sonora / Awakening at night / Carmen Calatáyud -- Hoy mujeres y hombres = Today women and men / Xánath Caraza -- On the border, we dream / Héctor Carbajal -- Niño traga fuegos / Elizabeth Cazessús -- Olmecan eyes / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Del puente al arco / Ana Chig -- Reconsider the lilies = Considerad de nuevo las azucenas / Jabez W. Churchill -- The new West / Antoinette Nora Claypoole -- Sonnet for police officers charged with enforcing SB 1070 / Karen S. Córdova -- To be a pocha or not to be / Iris De Anda -- Capitol poetry / Nephtalí De León -- Your America, my Turtle Island / Susan Deer Cloud -- Before the world wakes / Two missing men, one white, one brown, one rich, one not / So rich / Elena Díaz Björquist -- There is a fence around my heart / James Downs -- A ceremony for reclaiming language / Qwo-Li Driskill -- Border / Sharon Doubiago -- Border crossing / Sharon Elliot -- La voz del inmigrante = Immigrant voices / Mario Ángel Escobar -- Isabel's corrido / Martín Espada -- Giving voice / Border inquest blues / Collecting thoughts from the Universe Odilia Galván Rodríguez.

Language Note:

Chiefly in English with several poems in Spanish; some poems in English and Spanish, and one poem in Irish.