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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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Francisco X. Alarcón |
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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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¡Tlazoltéotl!
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Tlazolteotl!
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Oración del desierto/Desert Prayer
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Home Movies of Narcissus
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Rane Arroyo |
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Amateur Filmmaker
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People of the Piñata
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That Flag
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Directions to the Beach of the Dead
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Richard Blanco |
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When I Was a Little Cuban Boy
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Translation for Mamá
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In the City of Smoking Mirrors
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Albino Carrillo |
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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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Lisa D. Chávez |
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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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Juan Delgado |
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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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David Domínguez |
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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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Blas Falconer |
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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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Gina Franco |
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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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Diana Garcia |
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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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Maurice Kilwein Guevara |
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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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Juan Felipe Herrera |
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blood night café
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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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Letanía para José Antonio Burciaga
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Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, & My Mother
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Rita Maria Magdaleno |
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Salzbergwerk: The Salt Mines Tour
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Cue Lazarus
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Carl Marcum |
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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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Demetria Martínez |
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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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Valerie Martínez |
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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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María Meléndez |
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Backcountry, Emigrant Gap
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In Biruté's Camp
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Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
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Adobe Odes
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Pat Mora |
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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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Dixie Salazar |
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Piñión Nuts
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Why I'm Not Someone Else
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Elegy for Desire
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Luis Omar Salinas |
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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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Virgil Suárez |
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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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Luis Humberto Valadez |
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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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Marcos McPeek Villatoro |
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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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Fred Arroyo |
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excerpt from Samba Dreamers
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Kathleen de Azevedo |
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excerpt from If I Die in Juarez
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Stella Pope Duarte |
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Brides and Sinners in El Chuco
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Christine Granados |
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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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Jack Lopez |
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La Luz
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Lost
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El Milagro and Other Stories
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Patricia Preciado Martin |
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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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Ana Consuelo Matiella |
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The Ring
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El Bebé del Vaquerón
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excerpt from The Peruvian Notebooks
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Braulio Muñoz |
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The Last Tortilla and Other Stories
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Sergio Troncoso |
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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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Marjorie Agosín |
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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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Kathleen J. Alcalá |
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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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Ray Gonzalez |
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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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Luis Alberto Urrea |
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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
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