A fire in my hands :
Soto, Gary.
A fire in my hands : a book of poems / Gary Soto. - New York : Scholastic, c1990. - 63 p. : ill. ;
Foreword -- Black hair -- Learning to bargain -- In August -- That girl -- October -- How to sell things -- Oranges -- Brown girl, blonde okie -- Heaven -- Envying the children of San Francisco -- Kearney park -- Hitchhiking with a friend and a book that explains the pacific ocean -- Morning on this street -- Autumn with a daughter who's just catching on where we could go -- Pepper tree -- Failing in the presence of ants -- Eating bread -- How things work -- Finding a lucky number -- Teaching numbers -- Looking around, believing -- Evening walk -- Questions and answers about poetry.
The author's twenty-one poems are about the themes of life and each is preceded by a personal anecdote.
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Soto, Gary
Poets, American
Mexican American poets
Mexican American youth
Mexican Americans
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A fire in my hands : a book of poems / Gary Soto. - New York : Scholastic, c1990. - 63 p. : ill. ;
Foreword -- Black hair -- Learning to bargain -- In August -- That girl -- October -- How to sell things -- Oranges -- Brown girl, blonde okie -- Heaven -- Envying the children of San Francisco -- Kearney park -- Hitchhiking with a friend and a book that explains the pacific ocean -- Morning on this street -- Autumn with a daughter who's just catching on where we could go -- Pepper tree -- Failing in the presence of ants -- Eating bread -- How things work -- Finding a lucky number -- Teaching numbers -- Looking around, believing -- Evening walk -- Questions and answers about poetry.
The author's twenty-one poems are about the themes of life and each is preceded by a personal anecdote.
0590450212 9780590450218 0590445790 (pbk.) 9780590445795 (pbk.) 0590355821 9780590355827
Soto, Gary
Poets, American
Mexican American poets
Mexican American youth
Mexican Americans
811