Table of Contents

• Introduction by Elena Poniatowska
• Cartucho (translated by Doris Meyer)
  • Translator’s Note
  • I. Men of the North
  • II. The Executed
  • III. Under Fire
• My Mother’s Hands (translated by Irene Matthews)
  • Translator’s Note
  • She Was....
  • Once I Sought Her, Far Away....
  • Reader, Fill Your Heart with My Respect
  • You and He
  • Her Love
  • Our Love
  • Her Skirt
  • Her God
  • The Men Left Their Mutilated Bodies Awaiting the Succor of These Simple Flowers
  • The Men of the Troop
  • The Dumb One
  • A Villa Man Like So Many Others
  • She and Her Machine
  • Jacinto’s Deal
  • Plaza of the Lilacs
  • When We Came to a Capital City
  • A Letter for You

About the Author

Doris Meyer is Roman S. & Tatiana Weller Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College. Irene Matthews is Associate Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Northern Arizona University.