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4 | (1) |
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No Dogs or Mexicans Allowed |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (2) |
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8 | (1) |
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You Are Real as Earth y mas |
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9 | (2) |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (2) |
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Nothing But This at the End |
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14 | (2) |
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The Desert as Antidote: Verano, 1997 |
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16 | (3) |
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19 | (1) |
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I Heard the Cries of Two Hundred Children |
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20 | (2) |
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``Never Again a Mexico Without Us'' --- Comandante Ramona |
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22 | (4) |
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26 | (3) |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (2) |
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La Burra confunde la amistad con un cuerazo |
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33 | (1) |
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La Burra Mistakes Friendship with a Lashing |
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34 | (1) |
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La Amiga regresa a educar a la burra |
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35 | (1) |
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The Friend Comes Back to Teach the Burra |
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36 | (1) |
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I Did Not Think She Was Beautiful---Then |
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37 | (2) |
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39 | (2) |
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``Like the people of Guatemala, I want to be free of these memories...''---Sister Dianna Ortiz |
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41 | (6) |
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47 | (2) |
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49 | (2) |
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51 | (2) |
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Dear Pope: Open Letter from the Americas |
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53 | (2) |
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55 | (1) |
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Recipes for a Welfare Mother |
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56 | (2) |
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58 | (3) |
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Cabrona con corazon/Goat Woman with a Heart |
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61 | (2) |
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Since the Creation of My Son and My First Book |
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63 | (3) |
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For Marcel Ramon from His Mother at Sea |
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66 | (1) |
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67 | (2) |
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What Is Not Found in Paintings or Books |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (2) |
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72 | (2) |
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I Decide Not to Fall in Love |
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74 | (1) |
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Y ¿donde se encuentra Dios? |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (1) |
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78 | (1) |
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Nani Worries About Her Father's Happiness in the Afterlife |
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79 | (2) |
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81 | (1) |
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How Does It Feel to Be Cruel to a Woman? |
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82 | (1) |
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For My Child Who Became a Man in His Thirteenth Year |
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83 | (2) |
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A Little Prayer for the Trees |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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Peel My Love Like an Onion |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (2) |
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92 | (1) |
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All I Have for Her Is a Poem |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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Seduced by Nastassia Kinski |
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95 | (2) |
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97 | (2) |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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She Was Brave to Leave You |
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101 | (2) |
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While I Was Gone a War Began |
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103 | (3) |
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A Federico Garcia Lorca mas a algunos otros |
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106 | (3) |
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For James Baldwin, with Love (November 8, 1989) |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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Chi-Town Born and Bred, Twentieth-Century Girl Propelled with Flare into the Third Millennium |
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111 | (8) |
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Canto para las brujas of Good Deeds and Desires |
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