by
Ricardo Sánchez
un chuco neta

Arte
by 
Jesús "Chista" Cantú
an Oreja original

Rob Lewis, Publisher
P.O.  Box 858
Iowa City, Iowa 52244

All poetry copyright © 1994 by Ricardo Sánchez, Ph.D., except "Dream(s): hacia lo sensual" which is copyright © 1976 and 1994 by Ricardo Sánchez, and "Orale, Don Cristobal or Rapine ét Columbine" which is copyright © 1992 and 1994 by Ricardo Sánchez. "the word writ/the writ word" copyright © 1994 by Ricardo Sánchez.

All illustrations and front cover design copyright © 1994 by Jesús "Chista" Cantú.

Preface copyright © 1994 by Rob Lewis.

"Dream(s): hacia lo sensual" first appeared in Hechizospells by Ricardo Sánchez, Creative Series No. 4, Chicano Studies Center Publications, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976.

"Orale, Don Cristobal, or Rapine ét Columbine" first appeared in Fugue #6, English Department, University of Idaho, Moscow, Fall/Winter 1992.

ISBN 0-9640662-0-3

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 94-78487

FIRST EDITION, 1 OCTOBER 1994
SECOND PRINTING, 1 MARCH 1995

      Dedicatoria

         To familia past, present, future, 
         to our cosmic américa 
         where all hues commingle
         from frozen sheets of glacial song 
         onto pampas, verdant jungles 
         and desert visages 
         as mountains erupt 
         from an América where music 
         has many faces 
         and art
         all the tonalities of the universe, 
         to you, o land 
         whose woman warmth nurtures, 
         to you, o solar 
         being whose man sharpens moments, 
         to you, to us, to me,
         to sentient powers 
         unleashing universal songs 
         arising frothingly 
         from particularized expressions, 
         the song within, 
         the private poem, 
         humanity within the space 
         between the names, amidst 
         the letters, the syllables 
         becoming definition,
         we are a mutual humanity . . . .

           AMERIKAN JOURNEYS :: JORNADAS AMERICANAS

          Preface by Rob Lewis........................III
          Dedicatoria.................................VII

          Foreword
          the word writ/the writ word................VIll

          Arizona Bus...................................3
          notes on an artist's death....................5
          Dream(s): hacia lo sensual....................7
          Orale, Don Cristobal.........................11
          urgencia.....................................25
          urgencia II: Stanfordian Trips...............26
          there is no time.............................28
          o youth, o life..............................29
          poets three..................................32
          symbiont spaces..............................34
          symbiont spaces: urbe........................35
          a donde llegaste.............................37
          a César lo suyo..............................44
          dirge chicaneaux.............................50
          quartered century............................54
          Canción Chiapaneka...........................57

          Arte

          "Un Chuco Neta"..............................VI
          "Uvas No"....................................38
          "el Jefe Emiliano rides again"...............56