1954: Transition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Gratitudes xi
4. Introduction: Explico Algunas Cosas 1
5. 1 This Is My Name
6. Introduction 21
7. Sugar Poem 23
8. Child of the Americas 25
9. Class Poem 26
10. Wings 29
11. Truths Our Bodies Tell 32
12. Stricken 37
13. Listen, Speak 40
14. Yerba Bruja 43
15. Dulce de Naranja 48
16. First Snow 54
17. That Bridge 59
18. 2 Earth Body
19. Introduction 61
20. Monense 65
21. A Story 68
22. chicken house goat girls 69
23. Nadie la tiene: Land, Ecology, and Nationalism 71
24. Mountain Moving Day 84
25. Patients 90
26. Teeth 92
27. Coming Out Sick 94
28. Burnt Light 98
29. Body Compass 101
30. Fatigue #1 104
31. Poem for the Bedridden 108
32. Rematriation: A Climate Justice Migration 109
33. 3 The Tool of Story
34. Introduction 119
35. Art and Science 121
36. The Historian as Curandera 126
37. a poet on assignment 144
38. Civil Disobedience 148
39. Paris 151
40. Baghdad Birthday 153
41. Guanakán 155
42. 4 Mapping Where It Hurts
43. Introduction 159
44. Revision 161
45. Frontier Cooking 165
46. Brown Birds 167
47. Letter to a Compañero 169
48. Endangered 172
49. Unobituary 174
50. Questions for the Media 177
51. Sacrifice Zones 179
52. 5 Making Medicine
53. Introduction 181
54. Ecology Is Everything 185
55. 1515: Plátano 191
56. Kitchens 192
57. Hold the Coffee 194
58. Vivir Para Tí 198
59. Prayer for White Allies 211
60. Transfusion 213
61. Exoskeleton 214
62. A Remedy for Heartburn 217
63. Radical Inclusion 223
64. Land Days 229
65. Milk Thistle 232
66. Breath: 2020 233
67. 6 The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole
68. Introduction 235
69. From Dark of the Year 237
70. Stroke 241
71. 1919: Lost Bird: Western United States 244
72. Lament 246
73. Eshú in Ukraine 248
74. Buried Poems 252
75. Mothers 254
76. Gaza Nights: January 2009 256
77. Guerrilla Psych 258
78. Histerimonia: Declarations of a Trafficked Girl, or Why I Couldn’t Write This Essay 262
79. 7 Ancestors
80. Introduction 269
81. First Mother: Maghreb (–300,000) 271
82. Old World: –100,000 273
83. Guakía Yahabo 274
84. 1695: News of Sor Juana 276
85. 1873: The Freedwomen Contract Themselves 278
86. Tsu Got Vel Ikh Veynen 280
87. Prologue to Filigree 287
88. Voices of the Dead 290
89. Water Front 294
90. Memorial 297
91. Muna Lee 298
92. Fidel 307
93. A Boricua Speaks of Rivers 311
94. Memoir of a Collaboration 315
95. My Father’s Hand 321
96. Introduction: New Orleans 324
97. 8 Ceremony
98. Introduction 327
99. Tashlich 331
100. Dark of the Year: December 2002 332
101. Shema: September 12, 2001 339
102. Grave Song for Immigrant Soldiers 347
103. Silt of Each Other 353
104. Silt Sequence 356
105. Bees 363
106. Resurrection 365
107. Slichah for a Shmita Year 366
108. Braided Prayer 368
109. Water Road 372
110. 9 Prophecy
111. Introduction 377
112. Awake 379
113. 1954: Transition 380
114. Speaking of Antisemitism 383
115. Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon 5778/2017 391
116. V’ahavta 396
117. Will We? 398
118. Where to Go from Here 401
119. Supporting Aurora’s Work 407
120. Index 409