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My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults
Contributor(s): Mora, Pat (Author), Accardo, Anthony (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 1558852921     ISBN-13: 9781558852921
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2003
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Annotation: Adults and children alike have long admired Pat Mora's extraordinary and diverse gifts. She has won awards and received acclaim for both her poetry (Borders, Chants, Communion, and other works) and her charming children's books (Delicious Hullabaloo, Tomas and the Library Lady, The Desert Is My Mother, and many more).

Now Arte Publico Press is pleased to announce a major selection of new and previously published poems chosen by Pat Mora herself with young-adult readers in mind. Using the cactus plant as her guiding metaphor for our existence, she presents more than sixty poems grouped variously into "Blooms", "Thorns", and "Roots". Each section opens with a graceful line drawing from artist Anthony Accardo, and the whole is prefaced by a whimsical and intimate introduction, "Dear Fellow Writer".

My Own True Name, an anthology fifteen years in the making, is sure to be sought by deeply rooted and still-budding lovers of poetry.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 00023969
Series: Pinata Books for Young Adults
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.49" W x 8.5" L (0.30 lbs) 81 pages
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Latina 04/01/2000 pg. 36
Booklist 03/15/2000 pg. 1377
School Library Journal 07/01/2000
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 47265
Reading Level: 5.9   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 1.0
 
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Publisher Description:
More than sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, include such titles as The Young Sor Juana, Graduation Morning, Border Town 1938, Legal Alien, Abuelita Magic, and In the Blood.
 
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