On the Line
Poems
Published on 1. April 2010
130 pages
978-1-60940-014-9 (ISBN)
Description
With gentle yet sardonic wit, this collection of poetry considers the transcultural experience and encourages engaging with the world, both intellectually and emotionally, despite feelings of isolation. Fusing personal, sociopolitical, and ecological concerns, this compilation exposes public as well as private wounds in an accessible and thought-provoking manner. Addressing human rights and gender issues, these significant poems evaluate current predicaments and express hope for a future without them.
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- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Power Lines (In Wind)
- Wind is Spirit
- I Suppose I'll Believe You Both . . .
- Kansas Borderlands
- My Own Private Borderlands
- Hibiscus and Marigolds
- Though He'd Rather Work For National Geographic
- Receiving the Inheritance
- I.: Pomme de Amour
- II.: In the Folds
- Mattress-Liners Triptych, Plus One
- I. Without a Word in Portuguese
- II. Half Asleep, I Thought A Mirror
- III. Three Wishes
- Synesthesia Across Hemispheres
- Happy Valentine's Flowers from Mom in Hawaii
- One Liners: Love Bites, Bread Lines, and Roses
- This Bee and I
- Gasping Air Into Song
- Fast
- Cat
- US Currency Reformed
- Checkmate: Your Love Bounced
- Consummation /communion
- Bottom Line
- Garden Poem
- Riddle of the Daisy
- Postscript to the Daisy Poem
- Asymmetry
- Sincerity over Constancy
- Adjunct's Pledge (a.k.a. Broken Treaty)
- Class Lines
- A volley across the net of language
- November Ironies . . .
- Who Says Plants Don't Move?
- Who Says Trees Don't Move?
- Incommunicado
- Disjuncture
- Waiting In Line
- I. Words Written While Holding the Phone . . .
- II. Notary Public
- Epistolary Lines
- Text Message Upon Hearing You Dropped Your Classes
- Letter to Angie: "the touching down of tenderness"
- August Echoes
- I. Dog days
- II. Canícula
- A Letter to the Goddess
- Dispatches From a Past Season
- Postscript: On Your Absence
- Love Letter to an A.I. Friend
- Marsha Brought Chestnuts
- This Prison Called Patriarchy
- Engendering a Bottom Line: Over Gender Lines
- Arizona
- Between Other Women
- The Longest Hand
- Of gender battles, tender wars
- Hope Chest
- Conscientização
- Entre Nous
- No Preference
- Birthday in Maspeth
- Durga's Daughter
- After the Unspeakable
- Man is an Adjective
- Challenging Time Lines: On So-Called Fertility Votives
- Farewell Lines
- Eulogy for Land Lines. . . .
- Ojos Verdes
- Chautauqua Finis
- Time Lines Curl Back
- As lips close in
- Mbuso's Farewell
- Raymondville: a conversation
- Nina's Poem
- For Grandma
- Arriving on the eve . . .
- Lines for Manny
- Prairie Horizon Lines
- Does the Paradigm of Language . . . ?
- May 23, 2:00 p.m., Sand Prairie
- September 19, 8:15 a.m., Walnut Valley
- from Breeding Bird Census Poem Cycle, 1970s
- Ohio Prairie, 1986
- Vigilance
- Here Too Suspended
- On the Prairie
- Words on page never so soft-edged as these muted hills
- Horizon Lines: Returns to the South Land
- Yatra en Norte América
- En Real de Catorce
- How I Studied Foreign Texts at Teoteocan and . . .
- On the Caribbean
- Over Lines in Sand: Solamente Justicia y Paz
- Cross Over the Line
- No one dared call it peace: 1993
- La Despedida, Austin, Texas
- Where were the Crows?
- brother, teacher, student, lover
- White Noise
- Seasonal Still Life, 2005
- Esperanza, August 1998
- Las Manitas de La Paz
- Waterlines, 2005
- Tonantzin
- Checkpoint
- In Support of the Troops Home Fast Against the War
- Soft Breathing
- Once upon a time
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
