Tortillera : poems / by Caridad Moro-Gronlier.

Unpacking The Suitcase -- Analfabeta -- Arbolito In El Exilio, 1979 -- Topography -- Inheritance -- Wet Foot, Dry Foot, 2002 -- What I Should Have Said, Instead -- Compulsion: A Chronology -- Puta --Quinceañera -- What The White Girl Asked At Our 20th High School Reunion -- At Least I Didn't Rape You -- Somnambulism 101: Never Wake A Talker -- Cuban-American Lexicon -- Visionware -- What They Don't Tell You At The Baby Shower -- Waiting To Be Discharged From The Maternity Ward -- Fourth Quarter --Grilled -- That Night At The Rack 'Em Room -- At That Motel on 8th Street -- Labor Day 2003, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach -- The Perfect Dress -- Veteran's Day, 2005, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach -- For My Lover, Returning To Her Husband -- What You Learn At The Track -- Doing Without -- Like Finger Sandwiches For Sumo Wrestlers -- Raisins In The Stuffing -- Pruning Black-Eyed Susans On The Day Of Our Divorce -- Coming Out To Mami -- For Marlene, Who Asked Why I Switched Teams -- Contemplation Of A Name -- I Did Not Take My Camera To Paris -- Why Can't You Just Listen? -- The Really Good Dutch Oven -- Memento Mori -- I Don't Eat Plums Anymore -- Uncoupled -- Taking The Sunrise Tunnel -- The Gift -- When You Ask About Karen -- What You Called To Say At Lunch -- Ink -- Pulse: A Memorial In Driftwood, Cannon Beach, OR -- Solving The Crossword.

"Tortillera chronicles the life of a Cuban-American daughter, wife and mother as she dismantles the existence she was taught to want in order to evolve into the queer woman she was born to be. Told through intimate, narrative poems, the speaker's life "on the hyphen" is laid bare as she grapples with the effect language, place, and cultural expectations have on sexuality, gender and identity"--

Winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize, Florida.