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A fire in my hands : a book of poems / Gary Soto.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scholastic, c1990.Description: 63 p. : illISBN:
  • 0590450212
  • 9780590450218
  • 0590445790 (pbk.)
  • 9780590445795 (pbk.)
  • 0590355821
  • 9780590355827
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811
Contents:
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.
Summary: The author's twenty-one poems are about the themes of life and each is preceded by a personal anecdote.
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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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