Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bibliography

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#1
Poetry Collections
1991
Calendar of Dust
1996
Dark and Perfect Angels
2002
Elegies of Blue
2006
Dreaming the End of War
2010
The Book of What Remains
 
 
#2
Poems
1991
Resurrections
1991
The Book of Lamentations
1991
Waking to Winter
1991
Josefina. Las Cruces, New Mexico. June, 1969
1991
Willow
1991
Picking Season
1991
Exiled
1991
Sacrifices
1991
Easter
1991
Poem
1996
While Sleeping in My Parents' House
1996
In the Can Where She Keeps the Sugar
1996
El Paso County Jail
1996
I Wouldn't Even Bleed
1996
Meditation: Winter
1996
The Romance of Ventura's Father
1996
The Unchronicled Death of Your Holy Father
1996
The Girl You Left Behind
1996
Going North
1996
Chihuahua: City of the Lost
1996
Braided Woman
1996
Lullaby for Your Family
1996
Confessions of Benjamin, Your Grandson
1996
A Final Prayer for Ventura
1996
Growing Memories
1996
Uncles (Who Lie Still and Perfect)
1996
Fences
1996
Clay Woman Holding Her Sacred Heart
1996
Arturo, Your Mother
1996
Contemplating Roads
1996
Hermanos
1996
To John (When He Was Five)
1996
On Observing the Pigeons at Union Square (San Francisco) on the Eve of the Gulf War
1996
The Adoration of the Infant Jesus
1996
To the Desert
1996
Through the Rooms of This House
1996
Prayer
1996
The Wedding Feast at Cana
1996
Gloria. Woman Becoming Her Name
1996
Altars Into Time
1996
Between Worlds
1996
Miracle in the Garden
1996
No Sabe el Rio que se Llama Rio
1996
Meditation: Summer
2002
Oracion: A Man at Prayer
2002
The Boy Learns to Ask Important Questions
2002
The Rags of Time on Rio Vista Farm
2002
The Boy Wants to Know About Names
2002
Philosophy: The Woman at the Bar
2002
Why Men Quit: An Intellectual Inquiry
2002
The Man Meditates on Being Middle Aged
2002
The Word 'Transvestite' Will Not Appear in This Poem
2002
Work
2002
After Spain: For Edwin Rolfe
2002
What Was It All for, Anyway Cesar, Cesar Chavez?
2002
Angel
2002
Elegy for Burciaga
2002
Photograph: Fidel and Che, 1964
2002
The Stranger Comes Home
2002
American Camps
2002
The Blue I Loved
2002
The Boy Falls in Love with Beginnings
2002
Denise Levertov, Poet and Political Activist, Dies at 74
2002
The Poet, Having Dreamed That He Died, Writes a Long-Winded Epitaph for Himself in the Third Person
2002
At the Graves of the Twentieth Century
2002
At the Grave of Karl Marx
2002
At the Grave of J.E.K.
2002
At the Grave of Pancho Villa
2002
At the Grave of David Macias
2002
At the Grave of Juan Lucero Saenz
2002
At the Grave of the Twentieth Century
2002
Ashes in the Wind (the Voices Rise)
2003
Students I See Every Day
2006
Do Not Mind the Bombs
2006
Learning to Kill
2006
Killing and Memory and War
2006
The Names and Their Gods
2006
Families and Flags and Revenge
2006
Bullets and Deserts and Borders
2006
Animals, Food, Aesthetics
2006
Resurrecting Dogs
2006
Summer (and a Dog of My Own)
2006
War (in the City in Which I Live)
2006
This Is How It Will End. Is This How It Will End?
2006
Fathers and Other Gods
2006
A Dream of the Day
2010
Meditation on Living in the Desert, No. 1
2010
Meditation on Living in the Desert, No. 2
2010
Meditation on Living in the Desert, No. 3
2010
Meditation on Living in the Desert, No. 4
2010
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon
2010
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
2010
I Approach Mr. Max About Visiting Bigger Thomas in Jail
2010
Knowledge: The Hand of Another
2010
The Comforts of the Neighborhood
2010
The Ruined Cities of My Broken, Broken Heart
2010
What I Have to Sing About
#3
Short Story Collections
1992
Flowers for the Broken
2012
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
 
 
#4
Short Stories
1992
Exile
1992
Cebolleros
1992
A Silent Love
1992
Flowers for the Broken
1992
Obliterate the Night
1992
Kill the Poor
1992
Alligator Park
1992
In London There Is No Summer
1992
Holy Week
1992
Between Worlds
2010
He Has Gone to Be with the Women
2012
The Art of Translation
2012
The Rule Maker
2012
Brother in Another Language
2012
Sometimes the Rain
2012
Chasing the Dragon
2012
The Hurting Game
 
 
#5
Novels
1995
Carry Me Like Water
1997
The House of Forgetting
2004
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
2006
In Perfect Light
2008
Names on a Map
2008
He Forgot to Say Goodbye
2009
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
2012
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
2017
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
2021
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
 
 
#6
Children's Books
1999
A Gift from Papá Diego
2001
Grandma Fina and Her Wonderful Umbrellas
2008
A Perfect Season for Dreaming
2009
The Dog Who Loved Tortillas
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