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Introduction / Bryce Milligan -- The corn tortilla -- In the season of change -- Today the pomegranate tree was in bloom -- It is an exquisite fading away, I think / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- Marta Alvarado, profesora de historia -- Marta Alvarado, History Professor -- Umiliana Cardenas, pescadora de poetas -- Umiliana Cardenas, Fisher-Poet -- El credo de Titania -- Titania's Creed / Marjorie Agosin -- Homecoming -- The Dashboard Virgencita -- Dusting -- Audition / Julia Alvarez -- Cihuatlyotl, Woman Alone -- The Cannibal's Cancion -- La curandera / Gloria Anzaldua -- Una pequena contribucion -- To a Linguist Studying Discourse Strategies of Bilingual/Bicultural Students / Miriam Bornstein -- [actual symbol not reproducible]Las cosas que les pasan a los hombres en Nueva York! -- The Things That Happen to Men in New York! / Giannina Braschi -- Trojan Horse -- Decolonizing the Mind / Norma E. Cantu -- You Are Real as Earth, y Mas -- Ixtacihuatl Died in Vain --

Someone Told Me -- In My Country / Ana Castillo -- A Silk Blouse -- At Home in the World -- Insufficient Light -- Morning Geography / Rosemary Catacalos -- Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway -- Bird Ave -- On Love and Hunger -- Emplumada -- Lapiz Azul / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- The Crow's Bride -- Wild Horses / Lisa Chavez -- You Bring Out the Mexican in Me -- With Lorenzo at the Center of the Universe, el Zocalo, Mexico City -- Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity / Sandra Cisneros -- Absolution in the New Year -- Saint Rose of Lima -- Who Will Not Be Vanquished? / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Sonata a dos voces -- Sonata in Two Voices -- Plaza -- Town Square -- Recuerdo intimo -- Intimate Memory / Lucha Corpi -- Photograph of My Parents -- Balsero Singing -- If You Need a Reason / Silvia Curbelo -- La Vie: I Never Said It Was Simple -- La Malinche a Cortes y Vice Versa -- La Malinche to Cortes and Vice Versa -- Lesson in Semantics -- For Marsha / Angela de Hoyos --

Conceptual Art -- Positivo -- Positive -- Negativo -- Negative / Rosario Ferre -- Skin -- Penance? / Alicia Galvan -- Frida in the Nude -- Malintzin ... Marina / Victoria Garcia-Galaviz -- La Frontera -- Domingo Means Scrubbing -- Beggar on the Cordoba Bridge / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- La tia que nunca come azucar -- La cama de esperanza / Celeste Guzman -- Coatlicue -- Notes on Why Misogyny Is an Art Form -- The Burning God / Sheila Sanchez Hatch -- Viaje de una mujer sola -- One Woman's Journey / Maya Islas -- cuando se habla de nombres / Maria Limon -- Night Flight -- The Leaving / Rita Magdaleno -- To Keep Back the Cold -- Nativity: For Two Salvadoran Women, 1986-1987 / Demetria Martinez -- La Buena Pastora: The Good Shepherdess -- Sonrisas -- Bilingual Christmas -- Curandera -- La Migra / Pat Mora -- The border, she is a woman -- Woman as a River -- Leave Her for Me / Elvia Padilla -- Moon Phases / Anabella Paiz -- A Cartography of Passions --

Converging Boundary / Deborah Paredez -- Alabanza al gusano -- Poem to Praise Worms / Teresinka Pereira -- On Seeing Vermeer's Geographer -- Blue Madonna / Cecile Pineda -- White Scarves -- Aliens / Pina Pipino -- Keeper of the Word -- always fishing / Nicole Pollentier -- Lament of the Terrorist / Beatriz Rivera -- Three for Two -- History Revisited: In Quebec, with a Friend / Eliana Suarez Rivero -- Frida -- Plaza de Armas, Lima / Carmen Gimenez Rosello -- Mali / Beverly Sanchez-Padilla -- Laredo / Raquel Valle Senties -- New Song -- Porfiria -- La Malinche -- Mujeres del rebozo rojo / Carmen Tafolla -- Marker -- The Way Back / Sheila Ortiz Taylor -- Spells -- The Hands / Gina Valdes -- Los Alamos -- In the Crevices of Night -- Cante Jondo -- Promesas / Gloria Vando -- Bad Hair / Enedina Casarez Vasquez -- apprenticeship -- corazon en la palma -- lo hondo -- the hands of time -- crimson the color / Evangelina Vigil-Pinon --

Even the Eagles Must Gather -- Delicious Death -- Warrior in the Sand / Alma Luz Villanueva -- Contraries -- Glint.

Throughout the United States, from the pens of new talents and major figures alike, a Latina poetic sensibility is emerging. The diverse ethnic heritages of the poets of [actual symbol not reproducible]Floricanto Si! inform and inspire a particularly American Latina culture. These pages shimmer with the sensual imagery and vibrancy of poetry that interprets America, identity, womanhood, love, and art in new ways.