My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults

By Pat Mora

Book Overview

More than 60 poems chosen for young adults are grouped around the cactus plant as a guiding metaphor for existence. Topics include racism, learning English, maintaining heritage, and much more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558852921
• ISBN13: 9781558852921
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Length: 81 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Pat Maro My own True Name

1B- ketzalliH. my own true name is the best peom book I've ever read. It about a mexican lady that talks about her spanish roots. she also talks about what she went through as a child. her first love, her mother, father, sister and what her culture asked her to do. I love this book. this book to me in a number scale is 10.

Carving One's Name and Self . . .

Celebrated Chicana poet and children's author Pat Mora once again contributes an essential collection to the growing body of U.S. Latina/o literature. Her new and selected poems for young adults address diverse themes, and each section contributes to the empowering vision of the collection. The section titled "Thorns" reveals society's wounds, but the possibility of hope to rise above harsh circumstances.(The fifth star belongs to the next reader, the next young writer.)Mora's poems carve a necessary voice in U.S. poetics. She is a healer with a vision, and the speakers in her poems are mostly witnesses, mapping their own space.