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    A Study Guide for Teresa Palomo Acosta's "My Mother Pieced Quilts"
    A Study Guide for Teresa Palomo Acosta's "My Mother Pieced Quilts"
    A Study Guide for Teresa Palomo Acosta's "My Mother Pieced Quilts"
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    A Study Guide for Teresa Palomo Acosta's "My Mother Pieced Quilts"

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    A Study Guide for Teresa Palomo Acosta's "My Mother Pieced Quilts," 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 dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535829243
    A Study Guide for Teresa Palomo Acosta's "My Mother Pieced Quilts"

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      A Study Guide for Teresa Palomo Acosta's "My Mother Pieced Quilts" - Gale

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      My Mother Pieced Quilts

      Teresa Palomo Acosta

      1976

      Introduction

      My Mother Pieced Quilts, first published in 1976 in the anthology Festival de Flor y Canto: An Anthology of Chicano Literature, is a meditation poem using a mother’s handmade quilt as means to access and explore the poet’s childhood memories. As in a quilt, which is made from many different scraps of material sewn together by a single hand, the poem pieces together memories in order to show the reader a complete picture of the speaker’s childhood and her mother’s strong influence. The poet uses many vivid images throughout to help contrast the good memories with the unpleasant, weaving them together into the larger framework of the poem. Through her close observation and careful description of detail, by the end of the poem Acosta is able to place her mother’s hobby of piecing quilts in a much larger context, transforming the everyday day practice of quilting into a ritual closer to song and prayer: the quilts themselves are described as "armed / ready / shouting /

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