Interview with Pat Mora - Interview
MELUS, Summer, 2003 by Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak, Nancy Sullivan
Selected Bibliography
Poetry
Agua Santa: Holy Water. Boston: Beacon, 1995.
Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints. Boston: Beacon, 1997.
Borders. Houston: Arte Publico, 1986.
Chants. Houston: Arte Publico, 1985.
Communion. Houston: Arte Publico, 1991.
House of Houses. Boston: Beacon, 1997.
Essays
Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1993.
Children's Books
El arbol de Pablo. New York: Scholastic, 1996.
The Bakery Lady. Houston: Pinata, 2001.
A Birthday Basket for Tia. Orlando FL: Harcourt, 1999.
Confetti: Poems for Children. New York: Lee and Low, 1996.
The Desert Is My Mother: El desierto es mi madre. Houston: Pinata, 1994.
A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Ines. New York: Knopf, 2002.
Listen to the Desert: Oye al desierto. New York: Clarion, 1994.
Maria Paints the Hills. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico P, 2002.
Pablo's Tree. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
The Race of Toad and Deer. Toronto: Douglass and McIntyre, 2001.
Tomas and the Library Lady. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Uno, Dos, Tres: One, Two, Three. New York: Clarion, 1996.
Interviews and Secondary Works
Alarcon, Norma. "Interview with Pat Mora." Third Woman 3.1-2 (1986): 121-26.
Fast, Robin Riley. "Nature and Creative Power: Pat Mora and Patricia Hampl." San Jose Studies 15.2 (1989): 29-40.
Fox, Linda C. "Four Imaginarios Femeninos in Pat Mora's Cuarteto Mexicano." The Americas Review 25 (1999): 166-78.
Gutierrez Spencer, Laura. "The Desert Blooms: Flowered Songs by Pat Mora." The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingue 20.1 (1995): 28-36.
Murphy, Patrick D. "Conserving Natural and Cultural Diversity: The Prose and Poetry of Pat Mora." MELUS 21.1 (1996): 59-69.
--. "Grandmother Borderland: Placing Identity and Ethnicity." Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 1.1 (1993): 35-41.
Passman, Kristina M. "Demeter, Kore and the Birth of the Self: The Quest for Identity in the Poetry of Alma Villanueva, Pat Mora, and Cherrie Moraga." Monographic Review/Revista Monografica 6 (1990): 323-42.
Rebolledo, Tey Diana. "Pat Mora." This Is about Vision: Interviews with Southwestern Writers. Ed. William Balassi, John F. Crawford, and Annie O. Eysturoy. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1990. 129-39.
Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi, where she teaches contemporary American literatures, including women's and ethnic literatures. She is currently working on a book entitled Postmodern Vernaculars: Literature of the Borderlands.
Nancy Sullivan is a professor of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Her interest in minority issues in South Texas is reflected in publications focusing on language legislation as well as a recent chapter, co-authored with Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak, addressing multiliteracies and relevant pedagogical practices in minority classrooms. She is currently researching the intersection of politics and language in Hong Kong.
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