A Study Guide for Pat Mora's "Legal Alien"
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Legal Alien
Pat Mora
1980
Introduction
Legal Alien
originally appeared in the 1980 publication Hispanics in the United States: An Anthology of Creative Literature. Pat Mora's first collection of poetry Chants, which was published in 1984 and includes the poem as well, and was awarded the Southwest Book Award from Border Regional.
Legal Alien
explores the speaker's attempt to understand her identity while living between two separate cultures that equally reject her. Like most of Mora's work, Legal Alien
combines English and Spanish to express powerful emotions. The poem reflects the poet's own experiences as a Mexican American, and the two languages serve as a dialogue between the two cultures. Besides its inclusion in Chants, the poem is available on many different Web sites such as Voices from the Gaps and southwestcrossroads.org.
Author Biography
Mora was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1942, and grew up speaking both Spanish and English at home. Mora's grandparents had fled to the United States during the Mexican Revolution in the early twentieth century, and both of her parents grew up in the United States. As a child, Mora traveled back and forth across the border to visit family. Mora's mother, grandmother, and aunts told her traditional tales from Mexico, which she later incorporated into her children's stories. Her mother always encouraged her to read, and Mora established a lifelong love of