TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soto,Gary
TI  - A fire in my hands: a book of poems 
SN  - 0590450212
U1  - 811 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Soto, Gary
KW  - Poets, American
KW  - Mexican American poets
KW  - Mexican American youth
KW  - Mexican Americans
N1  - 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
N2  - The author's twenty-one poems are about the themes of life and each is preceded by a personal anecdote
ER  -