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    A Study Guide for Judith Cofer's "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica"
    A Study Guide for Judith Cofer's "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica"
    A Study Guide for Judith Cofer's "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica"
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    A Study Guide for Judith Cofer's "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica"

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    A Study Guide for Judith Cofer's "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535837859
    A Study Guide for Judith Cofer's "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica"

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      A Study Guide for Judith Cofer's "The Latin Deli - Gale

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      The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica

      Judith Ortiz Cofer

      1992

      Introduction

      Judith Ortiz Cofer first published The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica in Americas Review in 1992. The poem also appears in a 1993 collection of poems, short stories, and personal essays titled The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry. The collection received much critical acclaim. The title poem focuses on a place where Latino immigrants meet to talk to each other in their native language and to buy food from their homelands. The deli and its owner offer a respite from the culture clash that immigrants experience in the United States. As they walk down the aisles reciting the names of their native foods like poetry, they are able to hang on to the traditions of the past in order to maintain a clear sense of their cultural heritage. Ortiz Cofer transfers her own experience as an immigrant to art and so establishes a link between herself and the deli owner. Ortiz Cofer suggests that through her poems and stories that focus on the lives of Latino immigrants, she, like the owner of the deli, offers comfort and a sense of identity to others who share her heritage.

      Author Biography

      Ortiz Cofer was born Judith Ortiz on February 24, 1952, in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, to J. M. and Fanny Ortiz. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1956 when her father joined the U.S. Navy. The family made frequent trips back to Puerto Rico from their home in Paterson, New Jersey, during her childhood. This travel between the two cultures would have an important effect on her writing. When Cofer was fifteen, the family moved to Augusta,

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