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Not go away is my name / Alberto Ríos.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781556595875
- ISBN: 1556595875
- Physical Description: x, 92 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2020]
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "Resistance and persistence collide in Alberto Rios's sixteenth book, Not Go Away Is My Name, a book about past and present, changing and unchanging, letting go and holding on. The borderline between Mexico and the U.S. looms large, and Ríos sheds light on and challenges our sensory experiences of everyday objects. At the same time, family memories and stories of the Sonoron desert weave throughout as Ríos travels in duality: between places, between times, and between lives. In searching for and treasuring what ought to be remembered, Ríos creates an ode to family life, love and community, and realizes "All I can do is not go away. / Not go away is my name.""-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Families > Poetry. United States > Social conditions > Poetry. |
| Genre: | Poetry. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Table of Contents
Not Go Away Is My Name
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gifts for those who will see them | |
| Azúcar! | p. 5 | |
| Salted Watermelon | p. 6 | |
| Border Boy | p. 7 | |
| Muxica | p. 8 | |
| El Trabajo | p. 9 | |
| I Do Not Go Away | p. 10 | |
| The Morning News | p. 12 | |
| Border Ratings | p. 13 | |
| The Adjustments | p. 14 | |
| Immigrant Centuries | p. 15 | |
| The Cactus That Is My Cactus | p. 16 | |
| Dawn Callers | p. 18 | |
| 2 | The day has finished but has not gone easily | |
| White among the Colors | p. 21 | |
| The Secret in the Mirror | p. 22 | |
| I Did It | p. 23 | |
| The Circus Act Man | p. 24 | |
| The Feeling of Feeling | p. 25 | |
| Legacies | p. 26 | |
| Don't Go into the Library | p. 27 | |
| When the World Speaks Back to Us, Many Years Later | p. 28 | |
| A Quiet Evening in August | p. 29 | |
| 3 | Away from this small house on a quiet street | |
| Five Years Later | p. 33 | |
| The Scorpion of Loud | p. 35 | |
| The Flour Mill Tour | p. 36 | |
| This Afternoon Explaining about Changing Things 39 | p. 37 | |
| Amor Bruto y Azul | p. 39 | |
| Even-Keeled and At-Eased | p. 43 | |
| The Black Screen | p. 44 | |
| December Morning in the Desert | p. 45 | |
| Industralia | p. 46 | |
| 4 | The forest of used-to-be | |
| What Will Not Stay Still Long Enough to Be Named | p. 49 | |
| Telling the Family Stories | p. 50 | |
| CoffeeTea | p. 51 | |
| The Cockfight Place | p. 52 | |
| At the Recreo and PitÃc | p. 54 | |
| Baseball on the Mexican Border | p. 55 | |
| The Boys and Their Growing | p. 57 | |
| The Young Man Frankie Thinks His Secret Thoughts | p. 58 | |
| Breakfast That Will Be Mine | p. 59 | |
| Beer That Had the Look of Champagne | p. 60 | |
| Small Detective in a Quiet Kitchen | p. 62 | |
| The Sonoran Season | p. 63 | |
| Weak Day | p. 64 | |
| Faithful Forest | p. 65 | |
| 5 | Look back only for as long as you must | |
| The Jazz of Us | p. 69 | |
| The Nanas and the Tatas | p. 70 | |
| Too Soon Asleep | p. 73 | |
| Leaving without Saying Goodbye | p. 74 | |
| Open Eye, Closed Eye, Open Eye | p. 75 | |
| The Small Secret of Saint Cecilia | p. 76 | |
| We Play Again, the Great Animal Night and I | p. 78 | |
| Giants of the Night | p. 79 | |
| The Quiet Boy Noé, Who Waited to Speak | p. 81 | |
| Three Rivers | p. 83 | |
| Drunk Monsoon | p. 84 | |
| Seahorse in the Desert | p. 85 | |
| The Barrel Cactuses of the Northern Sonoran Desert | p. 86 | |
| A House Called Tomorrow | p. 87 | |
| We Are of a Tribe | p. 89 | |
| Notes | p. 90 | |
| About the Author | p. 92 |
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