These poems are like short stories packed with emotion, plot, character, and consequence. They evoke small-town, mid-century life with intimate detail, both physical and emotional, capturing moments of girlhood that linger and haunt the memory in later life. A oranza, (Spanish for yearning or longing) traces the impressions of a small-town girl whose family is dominated by a father's harsh rule over the household. His spare-the-rod- spoil-the- child...
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