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Tables of Contents for I Ask the Impossible
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xv
I Ask the Impossible
3
1
El Chicle
4
1
No Dogs or Mexicans Allowed
5
1
Waterbird Medicine
6
2
Mi volador
8
1
You Are Real as Earth y mas
9
2
A Nahua Woman's Love
11
1
Anna Mae Aquash
12
2
Nothing But This at the End
14
2
The Desert as Antidote: Verano, 1997
16
3
A Small Scorpion
19
1
I Heard the Cries of Two Hundred Children
20
2
``Never Again a Mexico Without Us'' --- Comandante Ramona
22
4
1999
26
3
Burra, Yo
29
2
Burra, Me
31
2
La Burra confunde la amistad con un cuerazo
33
1
La Burra Mistakes Friendship with a Lashing
34
1
La Amiga regresa a educar a la burra
35
1
The Friend Comes Back to Teach the Burra
36
1
I Did Not Think She Was Beautiful---Then
37
2
Coatlicue's Legacy
39
2
``Like the people of Guatemala, I want to be free of these memories...''---Sister Dianna Ortiz
41
6
¿De quien es la paz?
47
2
Whose Peace Is It?
49
2
I Saw Peru
51
2
Dear Pope: Open Letter from the Americas
53
2
Los Angeles: A Report
55
1
Recipes for a Welfare Mother
56
2
Women Don't Riot
58
3
Cabrona con corazon/Goat Woman with a Heart
61
2
Since the Creation of My Son and My First Book
63
3
For Marcel Ramon from His Mother at Sea
66
1
La Wild Woman
67
2
What Is Not Found in Paintings or Books
69
1
Tatehuari
70
2
Tatehuari
72
2
I Decide Not to Fall in Love
74
1
Y ¿donde se encuentra Dios?
75
1
Where Can We Find God?
76
1
On the Meaning of Things
77
1
Hummingbird Heart
78
1
Nani Worries About Her Father's Happiness in the Afterlife
79
2
Dia de muertos
81
1
How Does It Feel to Be Cruel to a Woman?
82
1
For My Child Who Became a Man in His Thirteenth Year
83
2
A Little Prayer for the Trees
85
1
For Alberto and Selena
86
1
Death Is Only What It Is
87
1
Peel My Love Like an Onion
88
1
Los Tocayos
89
1
For Elasa
90
2
I Am Not Egyptian
92
1
All I Have for Her Is a Poem
93
1
Maria's Clock Is Alive
94
1
Seduced by Nastassia Kinski
95
2
One Thousand Nights
97
2
When Women Part
99
1
For a Toltec Queen
100
1
She Was Brave to Leave You
101
2
While I Was Gone a War Began
103
3
A Federico Garcia Lorca mas a algunos otros
106
3
For James Baldwin, with Love (November 8, 1989)
109
1
Poeta en Santa Fe
110
1
Chi-Town Born and Bred, Twentieth-Century Girl Propelled with Flare into the Third Millennium
111
8
Canto para las brujas of Good Deeds and Desires
119