Just two years ago, the editor of a major publishing firm asked me to submit a story for a middle school reader. those readers have the power to shape how thousands of children think about mexican americans. the criteria were: "it can’t have religion in it; it can’t be mystical; it can’t have spanish in it." everything that was in bless me, ultima was rejected out of hand before the publisher would look at a manuscript. needless to say, i did not submit a story. â€""take the tortillas out of your poetry," rudolfo anaya what is one text structure that anaya uses to create voice in this passage?
