Pat Mora is a poet, novelist and author of children’s books. Her writings often reflect the conflictive nature of being bilingual and bi-cultural. Here she reads the poem “Legal Alien,” which explores the unease of being viewed as neither fully American nor fully Mexican.
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[...] Pat Mora is a poet, novelist and author of children’s books. Her writings often reflect the conflictive nature of being bilingual and bi-cultural. Here she reads the poem “Legal Alien,” which explores the unease of being viewed as neither fully American nor fully Mexican. [...]