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Regret is an uneven hand,
a rough palm at the cheek — tender
and calloused.
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A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.
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Every day I am deluged with reminders
that this is not
my land
and this is my land.
I do not believe in the war between races
but in this country
there is war.
Lorna Dee Cervantes
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There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Born:
August 6, 1954
(age 70)
Bio:
Lorna Dee Cervantes is an award-winning Chicana, of Mexican and Native American, ancestry. She is a feminist, activist poet who is considered one of the major Chicana poets of the past 40 years.
Known for:
Emplumada (1981)
Drive: The First Quartet (2005)
From the cables of genocide (1991)
Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems (2011)
Sueno (2013)
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