UA Poetry Center
Pat Mora reads from her first two books of poems, Chants (1984) and Borders (1986), as well as poems that would later be published, sometimes in different versions, in Communion (1991) and Agua Santa (1997). Mora, who hails from El Paso, includes several poems about the desert in honor of what she describes as "probably the first time I have done a reading in another desert area."
Introduced as "Summer Mockingbird." Differs from published version.
Mora, Pat. Agua Santa. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
Mora, Pat. Chants. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1984.
Mora, Pat. Borders. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1986.
Mora, Pat. Communion. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
Uncollected. A later poem on the same subject would be published in [i]Agua Santa[/i] as "Los brazos del rio."
Mora, Pat. Borders. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1986.
Mora, Pat. Borders. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1986.
Mora, Pat. Chants. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1984.
Mora, Pat. Chants. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1984.
Mora, Pat. Borders. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1986.
Differs from published version.
Mora, Pat. Communion. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
Introduced as "Stubborn Women." Differs from published version.
Mora, Pat. Communion. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
Differs from published version.
Mora, Pat. Communion. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
Differs from published version.
Mora, Pat. Communion. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
Differs from published version.
Mora, Pat. Communion. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
Differs from published version.
Mora, Pat. Communion. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
Mora, Pat. Borders. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1986.
Mora, Pat. Chants. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1984.
Differs from published version.
Mora, Pat. Communion. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1991.
