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Adobe Odes
Contributor(s): Mora, Pat (Author)

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ISBN: 0816526109     ISBN-13: 9780816526109
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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Published: November 2006
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Annotation: Wine-sipping syllables, a communion of bones, impetuous pinches of chile, and parrot-sassy guacamole. With a mC)lange of aromas and tastes, colors and sounds, award-winning poet Pat Mora invites readers into her home in this new collection of forty-nine odes. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
- Poetry | American - Hispanic American
- Poetry | Women Authors
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 2006018873
Series: Camino del Sol
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.64" W x 8" L (0.36 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
Features: Illustrated, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2007 pg. 80 - Recommended - Better Than Most
 
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Wine-sipping syllables, a communion of bones, impetuous pinches of chile, and parrot-sassy guacamole. With a m lange of aromas and tastes, colors and sounds, award-winning poet Pat Mora invites readers into her home in this new collection of forty-nine odes. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's Odas Elemantales and reinvented with a Latina identity, Mora celebrates the ordinary in lyrics that are anything but. Her poetry is the poetry of space--house patterns and adobe constructions--and the human rhythms that happen inside. It is also the poetry of what she loves--chocolate, books, dandelions, church bells, hope, courage, and even rain. Thick with the microcultures of foodstuffs, family, places, regions, deities, spirits, and literary figures, Mora's adobe universe is luscious and tactile, elemental and dynamic.

From family gossip and beauty secrets, to women darning hand-me-downs, to reluctant hands carrying bodies across borders, Mora traverses the tangled threads of culture, community, family, gender, and injustice. Her vivid observations together with her deft handling of symmetry and meter make her poetry uniquely insightful, subtle, and elegant. Sprinkled with Spanish and plenty of spice, each ode is a sensory flurry of mind and body. Together they make a cauldron of flavorful, simmering language. They are meant to be savored as they slowly stir the soul.

 
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