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GARY SOTO


Poems found: 351

ACTORS

AFTER READING SABINES

AFTER TONIGHT

AFTERNOON MEMORY

AFTERNOON TOAST

AMBITION

ANGEL

ANOTHER TIME

ANTI-HERO

APPLAUSE FOR THE SMALL OCCASION

APPLE

ARS POETICA, OR HOTELLING ON THE CHEAP IN ARIZONA

ARS POETICA, OR MAZATLAN, ON A DAY WHEN BODIES WASH TO SHORE

AS IT IS

ASKING

AT THE ALL-NIGHT CAFE

AT THE CANTINA

ATTENTION SPAN OF ALFREDO RAMOS

AUTUMN WITH A DAUGHTER WHO'S JUST CATCHING ON

AVOCADO LAKE

BEACH BALL

BEHIND GRANDMA'S HOUSE

BEING HUMAN

BERKELEY DOGS

BEST YEARS

BETTER VIEW

BETWEEN WORDS

BIENVENIDO, MY FRIEND

BIG TALKER

BLACK HAIR

BLACK HAIR

BLUE CAVALRY AND THE FALLING INDIANS

BODILY RESPONSES TO HIGH MASS

BOX FAN

BRALY STREET

BROTHER, SISTER, BROTHER

BROWN GIRL, BLONDE OKIE

BROWN LIKE US

BUDDHA, CHRIST & THE CLOCK

BULOSAN, 1935

CANAL

CAREER COUNSELING

CATGALINA TREVINO IS REALLY FROM HEAVEN

CHARITY OF LA SENORA LARA

CHIAPAS

CHISME AT RIVERA' STUDIO

CHITCHAT WITH THE JUNIOR LEAGUE WOMEN

CHUY

CODE OF WHITE BREAD

COLLEGE CAR

COLLEGE POVERTY

COMPANIONS

CONFESSION TO MRS. ROBERT L. SNOW

CONFUSING ASPECTS OF BEING A GOOD MAN

COPPER

COTTAGES ON DIVISADERO

CRACIELA

CREATURE

CRIMES OF THE DAY CLARIFIED

CRUEL BOYS

DAY AFTER

DEAR JOURNAL

DESIRE

DICTIONARIES

DIRT

DIZZY GIRLS FROM THE '60S

DIZZY GIRLS IN THE SIXTIES

DOCENT AT THE CITY MORGUE

DRINKING IN THE SIXTIES

DROUGHT

EATING BREAD

ECONOMICS

EFFECTS OF ABSTRACT ART

ELEGY

ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: DAYBREAK

ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD

ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FOG

ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: RAIN

ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: STARS

ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN

ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND

ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND (2)

ENVYING THE CHILDREN OF SAN FRANCISCO

ESSAY EXAMINATION FOR WHAT YOU HAVE READ IN THE COURSE WORLD

ESTONIAN COMES TO DINNER

EVE

EVENING OF ANTS

EVENING ON THE LAWN

EVENING WALK

EVERYTHING TWICE

EVOLVED PEOPLE

EXTROVERT, INTROVERT, EXTROVERT

FAILING IN THE PRESENCE OF ANTS

FAIR TRADE

FALL AND SPRING

FAMILY IN SPRING

FAT MAN & A POOL-SIDE WEEKEND

FEEDING TIME AT THE ROEDING ZOO

FEW COINS

FIELD POEM

FINDING A LUCKY NUMBER

FIRST

FIRST LOVE

FIRSTBORN

FLUFFY'S POOLSIDE CRIME

FRANKIE

FREDDIE'S SILENT TREATMENT TOWARD HIS FIRST AND LAST WIFE

FREUD IS MY FRIEND

FRIDAY NIGHT FISH

GENIUS

GET OUT OF TOWN

GETTING A FEEL FOR THE PLACE

GETTING AHEAD

GETTING OUR

GETTING SERIOUS

GIL MENDEZ AND THE METAPHYSICS OF A BLIMP

GOLD CANNON

GOOD BUY IN BEVERLY HILLS

GOOD MORNING FRESNO

GRACE

GUILT AND THE IRON LUNG

HALF-HOUR SALSA LESSON

HAND WASHING

HARVEST

HEAVEN

HEAVEN

HEAVEN

HER

HISTORY

HISTORY OF KARATE

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

HITCHHIKING WITH A FRIEND AND BOOK THAT EXPLAINS PACIFIC OCN

HOEING

HOEING

HOME COURSE IN RELIGION

HOUSE, STREET, OLD MAN

HOW THINGS WORK

HOW TO SELL THINGS

HUNGER AMONG CRABS

HUNGER FOR ART

IN AUGUST

IN DECEMBER

IN OUR PLACE

IN STORM

IN SUMMER

IN THE MADNESS OF LOVE

INFERIOR DOG

INVENTORY OF A VACANT LOT

JOB INTERVIEW

JOURNEY

JUNGLE CAFE

JUNIOR COLLEGE TOUR OF A MODERN DAM

JUNIOR HIGH REUNION

KEARNEY PARK

LANDSCAPE IN SPRING

LANTERN

LAZY SOULS

LEARNING MY LESSON

LEARNING TO BARGAIN

LEVEE

LISTENING TO JETS

LITTLE ONES

LIVING BY THEORIES

LOCAL HISTORY LESSON

LOOK AROUND, PROF SAID

LOOKING AROUND, BELIEVING

LOOKING FOR A CEMETERY

LOOKING FOR MY BROTHER AT THE COMPUTER FACTORY

LOST LOVE

MAGZINE ADVICE

MAKING MONEY: DROUGHT YEAR IN MINKLER, CALIFORNIA

MAKING UP TIME

MAP

MARIACHI SUIT

MATNETS

MEAT AND POTATOES

MELODRAMA BEFORE LUNCH

MEMORY

MEXICAN FOLKTALES

MEXICANS BEGIN JOGGING

MINIMUM WAGE

MISSION TIRE FACTORY, 1969

MORNING ON THIS STREET

MORNING THEY SHOT TONY LOPEZ, BARBER AND PUSHER...

MORTGAGE

MOSES

MOVING AWAY

MOVING OUR MISERY

MR. CINCO DE MAYO, THE WEIGHT LIFTER

MR. JORDAN EXPLAINS

MUSIC AT HOME

MY EVENINGS OUT

NEW LAWN

NEW MOVIES

NO SMOKING, PLEASE

NOT KNOWING

NOT MOVING

NOTES FOR SOCIOLOGY

NOVEMBER, 1963

OCTOBER

ODE TO FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS

ODE TO SENOR LEAL'S GOAT

ODE TO THE YARD SALE

ODE TO THE YARD SALE

ODE TO WEIGHT LIFTING

OLD HOUSE IN MY 40TH YEAR

OLD MAN'S BELIEF

OLD PROF WITH BOTH HANDS ON THE RAIL

ONE DAY IN MAY

ORANGE

OUR DAYS

OUR FIVE SENSES

PAGAN LIFE

PALM READER'S MISTAKES

PEACH PIT

PEPPER TREE

PETE WILSON, POOR-MAN'S DETECTIVE

PHILOSOPHY OF DOG & MAN

PHONE CALLS

PHOTO, 1957

PHYSICAL FOR THE FIFTY-FIVE-AND-OVER RETIREMENT COMMUNITY

PINK HANDS

PITCHING CHARITY TO THE FORTUNE 500

PLANET NEWS

PLUM'S HEART

POINT

POMPEII AND THE USES OF OUR IMAGINATION

PRACTICING EULOGIES

PROBABILITY

PROFILE IN RAIN

PROVISIONS

QUE PRETTY IN TEJAS

RAISIN FACTORY

READING BIOGRAPHIES

RED PALM

REINCARNATION

RELIGIOUS CONVERSION

REMEDIES

RESOURCE

RING

RIVER AT SUMMER'S END

RIVERS INSIDE THE BLUE LINES OF BINDER PAPER

ROUGH TRANSLATION OF A SABINE'S POEM

RURAL LIVING

SATURDAY AT THE CANAL

SATURDAY IN CHINATOWN

SATURDAY UNDER THE SKY

SATURDAY WALK IN CROCKETT, CALIFORNIA

SCHOOL NIGHT

SCIENCE OF SOCKS

SCIENCE SAID

SEEING A GIRL, GOING HOME TO FIND A BROTHER

SEEING THINGS

SETTLING MATTERS AT A YUGOSLAVIAN BAR

SEVENTH GRADE SHOES

SEVENTIETH YEAR

SHEPHERD

SHOPPING FOR A WOMAN

SHOPPING FOR A WOMAN

SHORT HISTORY OF SEX

SIZING UP A MARRIAGE

SIZING UP A MARRIAGE

SKEPTICS

SKETCH FOR A LAW ENFORCEMENT MINISERIES

SLOW NIGHT

SMALL FOREST

SMALL TALK AND CHECKERS

SMALL TOWN WITH ONE ROAD

SOME COINS

SOME HISTORY

SOME MYSTERIES

SOME WORRY

SOMETIMES IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET BURIED

SONG FOR THE POCKETS

SOPHISTS

SORROW IN FRENCH

SOUP

SPACE

SPELLING WORDS AT THE TABLE

SPIRIT

STARCHY CLOTHES

STATISTICS

STOCK MARKET

STRAY DOG'S LESSON

STREET

STREET

STREET AS FRONTIER

STREET SCENE ON THE FULTON MALL

STUBBORN THURSDAY

SUMMER

SUMMER MARRIAGE

SUNDAY

SUNDAY WITHOUT CLOUDS

SUPER-EIGHT MOVIES

SUSPICIONS

TAKING OVER

TAKING THE MOVIES TO THE STREETS

TAKING THINGS INTO OUR HANDS

TALE OF SUNLIGHT

TALE OF SUNLIGHT

TALL TALE AT THE CRAM-IT-INN BAR

TARGET PRACTICE

TEACHING ENGLISH FROM AN OLD COMPOSITION BOOK

TEACHING NUMBERS

TELEPHONING GOD

THAT GIRL

THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD

THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN

THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND

THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND (2)

THERE

THESE DAYS

THINKING LIKE A KID

TOWN

TRAVELING BURROS

TREES THAT CHANGE OUR LIVES

TUBA PLAYER

TV IN BLACK AND WHITE

TWO FLIES

UNDER TREES

UNDERGROUND PARKING

URBAN PLANNING

VERNON MANOR, OR HOTELLING ON THE CHEAP

WALKING WITH JACKIE, SITTING WITH A DOG

WANTING TO GO BACK HOME

WATER AND LIGHT

WATER WHEEL

WAY OF THINKING

WE ALL BELONG

WEIGHT OF DIAPERS

WEREWOLF FRIENDS

WEREWOLF TENDENCIES

WESTERN CIVILIZATION

WHAT ARE YOU SPEAKING?

WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR?

WHAT'S LEFT

WHEN I WAS NINE

WHEN WE WAKE

WHERE WE COULD GO

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU FIRST HEARD OF AIR-CONDITIONING

WHICH GOD DO YOU BELIEVE?

WHO ARE YOU

WHO WILL KNOW US

WHO WILL KNOW US

WIDOW PEREZ

WINTER BREAK IN THE SNOW

WITH NATURE

WORRY AT THE END OF THE MONTH

WRESTLER'S HEART

YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR

YOUNG MAN'S BELIEF IN DARK MOODS



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