Poetry for Students, Volume 35

across land. Mora might have chosen to write the poem in a spiral instead of presenting it in the traditional form of lines and ...

and stories about traditions passed down from generation to generation. Writers such as Pat Mora, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Ana Casti ...

meant to be a universal statement about all Chicana women. Pat Mora, a prolific writer particularly in the last decades of the t ...

The poem centers on the description of a tor- nado touching down in a desert area, a place where cacti and sand are part of the ...

both forceful and reckless and prudent and nurturant. This balance between the two types of women correlates with suggestions ab ...

I’ve written that I always liked rhyming poetry, the wonderful Robert Louis Stevenson poems, for example. Poetry remains a favor ...

and how it has impacted you as a writer and as a wordsmith. I grew up and now live in the Chihuahua desert. When I visit schools ...

You were a high school English teacher at one time. What do you wish you knew then that you now know as a reader, writer, and lo ...

Texas at El Paso from 1981 to 1989. Of those years, Mora remarks that ‘‘I was fortunate to work on issues of outreach to women a ...

‘‘Land’’ through identifying both the women wea- vers’ practice and hers as efforts to represent the earth’s creativity through ...

declares that her jealous husband ‘‘clothed me in bruises’’ (45). As with ‘‘Discovered’’ and ‘‘Dream,’’ Mora has these two poems ...

return again and again to the relationship of people and land, particularly toward the end of the volume. ‘‘Miss Doc at Eighty,’ ...

memorialize a lost art, but rather celebrates its continuation as ‘‘the lame healer and his grand- son’’ gather ‘‘branches and b ...

Texas is not California, and the experiences of cultural conflict and preservation remain varied. As Mora emphasizes, her desire ...

Winter Nikki Giovanni’s poem ‘‘Winter’’ was published in 1978 and included in her eighth poetry collec- tion,Cotton Candy on a R ...

grandparents. When she was fourteen, Giovanni moved back to Knoxville to live with her maternal grandparents. Giovanni enrolled ...

Honors Book. Since she began publishing in 1968, Giovanni has had more than two dozen books published, as well as many essays an ...

to ward off winter colds. It is more commonly known as cod liver oil, mixed with sugar and other flavorings to make it more pala ...

Stanza 3 In the third stanza, the poet links back to stanza one with a reminder of another animal that also hibernates for the w ...

in their preparation for burying themselves, and the speaker’s airing of quilts is presented as vir- tually parallel to what fro ...