American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1723 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pat Mora and the Border Poem
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The idea
The anchor calls Mora a leading figure in contemporary Chicana poetry. Born in El Paso to grandparents who left northern Mexico during the revolution, she wrote Chants in nineteen eighty-four around the magic of the desert, and "Legal Alien" and "Immigrants" come from her first two books.
In practice
A desert, and two words in tension.
Where people slip
The border is her subject and her home.
Your place on the trail
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