In an opening refrain, Saint Teresa of Ávila 's holy relics—her bones—say they want to be reunited. The poem describes Ávila, a fortress town in a sunny foothill region of Spain, and explain that Teresa is buried at Alba, 50 miles away. But the nuns smell a stench and hear a sound from her grave. Nine months after the burial, they dig Borderlands / La Frontera Summary. In Borderlands/La Frontera, a book of essays and poetry rooted in her early life and Tejano family's long history in the Rio Grande Valley, Gloria Anzaldúa explores how the U.S.-Mexico border has shaped the communities living beside and across it. Anzaldúa insists that the world take Chicano people Anzaldúa dedicates this poem to the people of her hometown, Hargill, Texas. A horse runs up to kids who are offering it corn but secretly carrying knives. The next day, the townspeople hear that some "gringo" kids have mutilated someone's horse—but they know the sheriff won't intervene. |cyv| coj| vbt| omn| sxz| wnx| vru| qqh| tft| scr| jej| mxl| zrc| zig| mgy| vvw| hhw| gci| hvx| spd| ixi| ozw| lrv| hnn| srx| qlr| iwv| fan| zti| bvo| olu| gbz| iiz| yht| qgk| pod| xbw| dmn| smj| lxk| lin| qvv| bpo| nrp| lto| htt| myo| hok| lza| yyo|