MEXICO: travelwithme

By Esther Cohen

Cohen invites readers to accompany her on a personal trip through Mexico, where she falls in love with three

rich and magical places: Oaxaca, Mexico City, and San Miguel. Taxi drivers, rug weavers, jewelry makers, and new friends populate her poems with stories of their lives in Mexico.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Don
• Release date: Apr 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088095034

Esther Cohen

Esther Cohen is a writer, teacher, and cultural activist living in New York City.

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For Mexico, amazing country full of everything.

Always hard the day before what do I pack

(emergency bagel) what do I leave

(every single necklace)

what books will I want in Mexico (download many)

how many notebooks how many earrings

of course there is absolutely everything there earrings books

what do we want from this vacation finally on the road to somewhere else to leave a part of ourselves behind (The day before,

I bought an ugly grey nylon bag with many zippers thinking

at last I will be organized, brought it home and Peter said you'll never carry that.

He was right.)

We flew to Houston

found Alchemy Cocktail bar

talked with people from Milwaukee who'd gone to Oaxaca four times woman