The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles
250
The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles
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Overview
Well-known poets include Holly Prado, Ruben Martinez, traci kato-kiriyama, and Lynne Thompson. Many strong new voices, however, makes this a well-rounded collection for any literary class, program, bookstore, or event.
The image of the coiled serpent appears in various forms in mythologies throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, India, and America. In pre-conquest times, Quetzalcoatl—the Precious Serpent—served as a personification of earth-bound wisdom, the arts and eldership in so-called Meso-America, one of seven "cradles of civilization" that also includes China, Nigeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and Peru.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781882688524 |
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| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Publication date: | 04/15/2016 |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 250 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Daniel A. Olivas is the author of seven books including the award-winning novel, The Book of Want (University of Arizona Press). His first nonfiction book is Things We Do Not Talk About: Exploring Latino/a Literature through Essays and Interviews (San Diego State University Press). Olivas is also the editor of the landmark anthology, Latinos in Lotusland (Bilingual Press).
Ruben J. Rodriguez, a recent graduate of UCLA, Magna Cum Laude, was previously an editor at Westwind magazine and has read at UCLA’s Powell Library.
Table of Contents
Luis J. Rodriguez 11
Introduction: City of Angels, City of Poets
Ricardo Lira Acuña 15
Intimate Set
Thomas Adams 17
Breadcrumbs
Tanzila Ahmed 19
Iftar Streets
Haze
Nelson Alburquenque 21
Body Against Me
Eggs on City Limits
Rosie Angelica Alonso 23
Recipe for a Tattoo
Li Yun Alvarado 25
In Los Angeles
Melissa F. Alvarado 26
Fifth Grade
Karina Oliva Alvarado 27
By the Tree
Rafael F J Alvarado 29
Untitled Prison Poem, #30
E. Amato 30
Earthquake Weather
William Archila 32
Three Minutes with Mingus
Erika Avón 34
Ashes
Danny Baker 35
Inalienable Right to Genuine Autonomy Nietzcshe and Kierkegaard
Andres Bermejo 37
Night, Sleep, Death, and the Stars
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo 38
Ode to Pan Dulce
The Boys of Summer
Laurel Ann Bogen 40
Bine Smoke and Steel
Hollywood Hills Noir
F. Douglas Brown 43
What I Know About Watts
Love Letter to Rashida Jones
Jeffrey Bryant 47
A Veteran's Day (2014)
Ruthie Buell 49
Artichokes
Don Kingfisher Campbell 51
Ventura Highway
Luís Campos 52
Andrés
Jessica M. Wilson Cardenas 53
Being Human
Anaid Carreno 55
Snake Tongue: Lengua de Culebra
Iliana carter 56
Mygration
Jessica Ceballos 60
Two dreams
Joaquin lives in Los Ángeles
Adrian Ernesto Cepeda 64
Traffic buying a familiar refrain
Her moon over Los Angeles
Angel Cerritos 66
La Calaca
Robert Chambers 68
Poem for Lost Angels
Lisa Cheby 69
Guests in a Guileless Land
When a Sonnet Loses Track of the Seasons
Gabreal Cho 71
Breast
Chiwan Choi 72
If 100, then 150
Marcus Clayton 75
Schizophrenic on the Steps of Bank of America
Wanda Coleman 76
Sonnet for Austin
Rafa Cruz 77
My Mind on the 239
Iliana Cuellar 78
Canto in Two Lenguas
Yago S. Cura 79
Los Angeles Country Jail Sonnets, #5
Watts Shadormas, #1
Art Currim 81
It is Upon Us
Kamau Daáood 82
Los Angeles
Doren Damico 83
Unfurl My Spirit
Woman of Colors
Carol V. Davis 87
Driving Late at Night in Hollywood with a Foreign Visitor
Iris De Anda 88
Terra firma
Seven Dhar 89
When 1 Smoked Pencils
David M. Diaz 91
An addiction
Kim Dower 93
Fontanel
Workout
Sharif Dumani 98
Los Angeles
I Went and Saw You Again, Tonight
Christian Elder 100
Queer
Seth Elpenor 102
From California…
Francisco Escamilla (Bus Stop Prophet) 103
Graf-ight
Boyle Heights
Yvonne M. Estrada 106
The Coyotes in the Living Room
My Name on Top of Yours, #14
Eric Eztli 108
A Different Doorway
Rich Ferguson 109
When Called in for Questioning
A Worry Bead, a Blessing
Jamie Asaye Fitzgerald 112
The Night Nurse
The Voyage of Comparative Snapshots of My Father's Brain
Angela Rose Fiores 114
Like My Mother
Michael C. Ford 116
Closing Prayer
Mariana Franco 117
Night 1
Jerry Garcia 118
Interstate 60
Downwind from a Man Sleeping in His Own Puddle
Nicolai Garcia 121
Did You Know Sea Otters Hold Hands When They Sleep So They Don't Drift Away From Each Other?
A Long Drive
Marisa Urrutia Gedney 124
City Hall Try
Permiso
Dana Gioia 128
Meet Me at the Lighthouse
Liz gonzález 129
Buñuelos
William A. González 130
In the Valley
Dorothy Randall Gray 132
Sandy in the Streets
Robert Gribbin 134
The Man in 702
Peter J Harris 135
Baby Talk
Evidence
Hazel Clayton Harrison 137
Sonny
Kevin James Hearle 138
Water and Power
The Politics of Memory
Adolfo Y. Hernandez 141
Tamale hustle
Raul Herrera 142
Earthquakes
To Quentin Tarantino
William Ryan Hilary 147
How to Sell Your First Screenplay and Become Rich
Poems from the Bargain Bin
Martens Hitt 150
Child on a Floor with Marble
Big Thunder
Jen Hofer 152
Resolve
Alexandra Hohmann 153
The Brown Girl in Her
This Small Thing
Boris Salvador Ingles 156
All the characters
Evergreen head stones
Gerda Govine Ituarte 160
Part 1, 44 Days
Poster Boy
Traci kato-kiriyama 162
Rain
Pilgrimage to the Meaning of Ash
Douglas Kearney 165
ING
Karen Kevorkian 167
The Proofreader Raises Hands to Eyes Without Anyone Seeing
Our Lady of Sorrows or is it Solitude
Doug Knott 169
Home Movie in Green and White
The Laughing Wall
Haley Laningham 171
A Year of Being Both Gay and Religious
The Valley and Family Tectonic
Teka Lark 174
Choices of Heat
Random Violence
Anthony A. Lee 179
Memory of Abel
No Moon in L.A.
Janice Lee 183
Los Angeles
Kimberly Lieu 186
Temple
Mark Lipman 188
The Price of Doing Business
Jaime Lopez 190
Love Me, Rain
Robert Mäder-Kammer 191
Mom's War Stories
Karineh Mahdessian 192
Here
Return
Ruthie Marlenée 194
Christmas in Duarte
Cuate, the Barrio Drunk
Jeffery Martin 197
The Poverty of Access
Rubén Martínez 199
"Contrabando y traicion": A Critical Karaoke
Phoebe MacAdams 202
February 14
Rhiannon McGavin 203
"L'Heritage"
Elena minor 205
Historia de un amor
Singer, Not Song
Penelope Moffet 207
Cutlery
Bill Mohr 209
Real Dajs Off
Complexities
Alejandro Molina 211
Border Crossing
Henry J. Morro 213
Boiling Rice
Sybil Mosely 214
A Clamor
Majid Naficy 215
Promenade at Dawn
Santa Monica Farmers' Market
Janet Nippell 217
L.A. Rockabye
Harry E. Northup 218
Young Latino Writes in Her Journal
East Hollywood 3
Martin Ott 220
Caves of Los Angeles
California is Sinking
Melinda Palacio 223
Broken Bone Poem
Rae Paris 225
Uncle Kwanza: November 1
Candace Pearson 227
From the Permanent Collection
From the Permanent Collection II
Alice Pero 229
Word Hummingbirds
Desert Hot Springs
Ramona Pilar 232
Six Lines to Thirty Eight
Jenuine Poetess 233
Colors i have been
Holly Prado 234
Pursuit of Happiness
I Need the Sanctified. I Need the Obvious
Arturo Quiros 236
Gasoline Dreams
A. Razor 238
If Bubba's Taxi Could Talk
Ellen reich 240
After the Rape
Steven Reigns 241
Morning, West Hollwood
Luivette Resto 243
Fingerprints on Tortilla
The Kind of Woman
Erika Reyes 246
For My Best Friend
Michael Reyes 247
Math Quizes at Breakfast
Atypical Love Poem
Thelma T. Reyna 249
Night Rituals
Sophia Rivera 250
To Make Yourself Yours
Claudia Rodriguez 252
On Being Butch
Daniela Rodriguez 254
A Temporary Whisper
Norma Rodriguez 256
L.A.: Story of a Traisplant
Ramiro D. Rodriguez 258
Dancing Through a Beating
Trini Rodriguez (Matriz) 262
Grown Men
Jeff Rogers 264
An L.A. Freeway Songbook
What Grows Below Ground
Conrad Romo 267
Suciopath
Jessica Romoff 268
Not Knowing What a Protest Tastes Like
For My Dear Naomi: Forever 16 Years of Age
Melissa Roxas 272
Returning
Pogo Saito 274
Highland Park, 2 am
Abel Salas 276
Talisman
Alexandra Sanchez 278
To My Absent Father
Cathie Sandstrom 280
Seven Tall Windows
OK, L.A., You Win
T Sarmina 283
Motet Paul Bunyan
When the Sun Sits
Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut 287
Survival Mask
S. Pearl Sharp 288
Easing Into An Avenue 50 Choir
Mahtem Shiferraw 290
Behind Walls & Glass
Mike Sonksen (Mike the Poet) 292
Blind Faith, Sour Grapes & Outside My Window
Robert Stanley 294
Wounded Angels
Austin Straus 296
The Good Woman of Watts
Ambika Talwar 297
Jetlag
Tezozomoc 299
Lake Tetzcoco
Lynne Thompson 303
Inter-mix'd
Émigré
Michael Torres 305
After I'm Gone
Anna Ureña 306
What do you mean Beverly Hills doesn't need a drone?
Amy Uyematsu 308
The Sign Says "Closed for Business"
Insomnia Entry No. 24
Rolland Vasin (Vachine) 310
Homie
How?
GusTavo Adolfo Guerra Vasquez 312
Hybrideities
Vickie Vertiz 314
1 Postcard from My Father
2 Postcard to My Father
Jennifer Lisa Vest 317
When I was Born
Estela Victoria-Cordero 319
Concrete Love
Antonieta Villamil 320
Evening Snapshot
America Malinche's Trade
Celia Viramontes 322
A Book All My Own
Hunger
Melora Walters 324
Nature Poem, #5
Hilda Weiss 327
Before the Long Weekend
The Poem
Sammy Winston 329
Sambas
Terry Wolvertan 330
Work
Nancy Lynée Woo 331
The Disappearing Act
Reflection
Gail Wronsky 334
Dolphins Are People, Too
And in green meadows raise a purple temple
Tina Yang 337
Why My Mother, the Bald Headed Nun, Rejected Me
Beautiful
Mariano Zaro 339
My Mother Wakes Up Late
Acknowledgments 341
Contributors 347