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New and selected poems
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Publication Date
[1995]
Language
English
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Auburn - Adult Non-Fiction
LIT 811 .54 SOT
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Newport - Adult Non-Fiction
811.54 Sot
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811.54 Sot
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North Kingstown - Non-Fiction (Lower Level)
811 Sot
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ISBN
9780811807616
9780811807586
9780811807586
Table of Contents
From the Book
Sizing Up the Sparrows, a preface --
Elements Of San Joaquin: --
Summer --
Field poem --
Hoeing --
Avocado Lake --
Morning they shot Tony Lopez, barber and pusher who went too far, 1958 --
Telephoning God --
In December --
Copper --
History --
Moving away --
Moving away --
Spirit --
Photo, 1957 --
Evening of ants --
Braly street --
Tale Of Sunlight: --
Little ones --
Soup --
Song for the pockets --
Shepherd --
First --
Journey --
At the cantina --
Creature --
Few coins --
Catalina Trevino is really from heaven --
Ring --
Tale of sunlight --
Space --
Where Sparrows Work Hard: --
Street --
Mission tire factory, 1969 --
TV in black and white --
Mexicans begin jogging --
Hitchhiking with a friend and a book that explains the Pacific Ocean --
Walking with Jackie, sitting with a dog --
Chuy --
There --
Her --
Widow Perez --
Frankie --
Bulosan, 1935 --
Black Hair: --
Black hair --
Plum's heart --
Oranges --
Behind Grandma's house --
Brown girl, blonde okie --
Heaven --
Learning to bargain --
Ode to the yard sale --
Ambition --
Estonian comes to dinner --
Kearney Park --
Morning on this street --
Envying the children of San Francisco --
Failing in the presence of ants --
Shopping for a women --
Saturday under the sky --
Finding a lucky number --
Looking around, believing --
Trees that change our lives --
Between words --
Who Will Know Us?: --
Red palm --
Another time --
Seventieth year --
Heaven --
Eve --
Elegy --
Looking for a cemetery --
Who will know us? --
Magnets --
Target practice --
That girl --
Learning my lesson --
Confession to Mrs Robert L Snow --
Small town with one road --
Philosophy of dog & man --
Good morning, Fresno --
At the all-night cafe --
Worry at the end of the month --
Sorrow in French --
Taking the movies to the streets --
Rough translation of a Sabine's poem --
Ars Poetica, or Mazatlan, on a day --
When bodies wash to the shore --
Home Course In Religion: --
Pink hands --
Gold cannon --
Apple --
Dictionaries --
Some mysteries --
Some worry --
Box fan --
Wrestler's heart --
Drinking in the sixties --
Levee --
Not moving --
Home course in religion --
Family in spring --
Super-Eight Movies: --
Chisme at Rivera's studio --
Que pretty in Tejas --
Traveling burros --
Old prof with both hands on the rail --
College car --
Rural living --
Dizzy girls in the sixties --
Magazine advice --
Not knowing --
Making up time --
Planet news --
Sizing up a marriage --
Water and light --
Fair trade --
Some coins --
Old house in my fortieth year --
Waterwheel --
Afternoon memory --
Better view --
Saturday in Chinatown --
Vernon manor, or hotelling on the cheap --
Super-eight movies --
Summer marriage.
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