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Puerto Rican Poetry
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Author : Robert Márquez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Puerto Rican Poetry written by Robert Márquez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Poetry categories.
Offering a comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry in English, this text includes the work of 64 poets, as well as selections from Puerto Rico's tradition of popular verse forms - coplas, decimas, bombas - produced by anonymous writers.
Puerto Rico
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Author : Alejandro Ventura
language : en
Publisher: Brooklyn Arts Press
Release Date : 2012
Puerto Rico written by Alejandro Ventura and has been published by Brooklyn Arts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Collections categories.
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "Alejandro Ventura's poems are full of intriguing combinations and surprising turns: a world of mangu-making, the paintings of Barnett Newman, baseball, Keats, the smell of grandmothers in an open pharmacy. A magician's hat of endless possibilities. The poems display a poet of capacious imagination, poised and skilled in his use of language, with an inviting playfulness, and an earned tenderness that touches the heart. It's magical realism meets Ashbery, but the result is his very own original voice. Alejandro Ventura takes us to an island that becomes our own as we read the poems in PUERTO RICO." Julia Alvarez "An impressive debut. Revealing it's author's keen, adroit sense of craft, delicacy of touch and tone, admirable candor, metaphorical inventiveness, and striking lyrical imagination, Alejandro Ventura's PUERTO RICO adds new nuance and inflection to the already rich harmonies and variously textured chorus of Puerto Rican and Diaspora Latino poets. Its vigorous blend of cerebral cool, sophisticated polish, and 'no more cynicism than was necessary' introduces readers to an arresting realm, 'a dream country...bound to the horizon.'" Roberto Marquez"
Nuyorican Poetry
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Author : Miguel Algarín
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow &Company
Release Date : 1975
Nuyorican Poetry written by Miguel Algarín and has been published by William Morrow &Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Poetry categories.
"A collection of poems in a new street-born language, Nuyorican; a dynamic English-Spanish contrapunctal expression of the anger and aspirations of the Puerto Rican. English nouns function as verbs. Spanish verbs function as adjectives. Raw life needs raw verbs and nouns to express the action and to name the quality of the experience."--Jacket.
Poems From A Puerto Rican Heart
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Author : Ellie Cabrera
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-11-06
Poems From A Puerto Rican Heart written by Ellie Cabrera and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-06 with categories.
Poems from a Puerto Rican Heart is the debut book for Puerto Rican poet Ellie Cabrera. She describes it as a collection of thoughts and poems that she gathered during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The collection includes poems that she wrote a few years ago and those that she wrote in the past eight months. The poems describe her return to Puerto Rico, as well as her journey to become who she is today.
Poetry Y Poes A
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Author : Victor Edgar Rivera
language : en
Publisher: VER: Writer/Poet/Art Dealer
Release Date : 2003
Poetry Y Poes A written by Victor Edgar Rivera and has been published by VER: Writer/Poet/Art Dealer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Poetry categories.
Antes Que Isla Es Volc N Before Island Is Volcano
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Author : Raquel Salas Rivera
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Antes Que Isla Es Volc N Before Island Is Volcano written by Raquel Salas Rivera and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Poetry categories.
Gold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Bilingual Poetry From the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet: a powerful, inventive new collection that looks to the future of Puerto Rico with love, rage, beauty, and hope Raquel Salas Rivera’s star has risen swiftly in the poetry world, and this, his 6th book, promises to cement his status as one of the most important poets working today. In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English versions, antes que isla es volcán daringly imagines a decolonial Puerto Rico. Salas Rivera unfurls series after series of poems that build in intensity: one that casts Puerto Rico as the island of Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, another that imagines a multiverse of possibilities for Puerto Rico’s fate, a 3rd in which the poet demands his right to a future and its immediate distribution. The verses are rigorous and sophisticated, engaging with literary and political theory, yet are also hard-hitting, charismatic, and quotable (“won’t you be sorry? / won’t you wish you had a boss? / won’t you get restless / with all that freedom?”). These poems tap unflinchingly into the explosive energy of the island, transforming it into protest, into spirit, into art.
Amer Can By Tato Laviera A Puerto Rican In New York
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Author : Agnes Bösenberg
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2003-06-27
Amer Can By Tato Laviera A Puerto Rican In New York written by Agnes Bösenberg and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-27 with Literary Collections categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Tubingen (New Philology, Anglistics), course: HS: Latino/Latina Literature in the US, language: English, abstract: The poem “AmeRícan” by Tato Laviera is part of the poet’s latest collection published in 1985. This work is, like his previous publications “Enclave” (1981) and “La carreta made a U-turn” (1979) considered as an outstanding example of “Nuyorican” poetry, that is to say poetry written by Puerto Ricans living in New York. When trying to understand the poem, it is necessary to understand the circumstances in which it was written. Therefore, a description of the artistic and personal environment of Tato Laviera will be given and the Nuyorican movement will be examined. On this basis, the language and structure of the poem will be studied in detail, concentrating on vocabulary, bilingualism, the title and rhythm. In the third part, the themes and topics of the poem will be analysed with the help of Juan Flores’ concept of the “four definitive moments in the awakening of Nuyourican consciousness”1. Finally, all these aspects will be brought together in a conclusion in which the attempt of pinpointing Tato Laviera’s view on Puerto Rico, America and his own identity will be made.
Mixturao And Other Poems
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Author : Tato Laviera
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 2008-09-30
Mixturao And Other Poems written by Tato Laviera and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-30 with Poetry categories.
In the title poem of Tato LavieraÍs fifth poetry collection, ñMixturao,î he celebrates the mix of diverse cultures and languages that make up America, and challenges those who advocate a monolingual existence: ñWe who integrate / urban America / simmering in each otherÍs / slangs indigenous / nativizing our tonguesÍ / cruising accents / who are you, English, / telling me, ïSpeak only English / or die?Íî Laviera deftly combines English and Spanish in this poetic celebration of his own bilingual, bicultural existence and the ever-increasing use of both languages in all fields, from music to technology. In his poem entitled ñSpanglish,î he writes: ñpues estoy creando spanglish / bi-cultural systems / scientific lexicographical / inter-textual integrations / two expressions / existentially wired / two dominant languages / continentally abrazàndose î Divided into sections that examine borders, women, men, neighborhoods, and folklore, Laviera continues his life-long poetic exploration of his Afro-Puerto Rican roots planted in the urban cacophony of New York City. In ñNideaquinedeallàî (ñNeither from Here nor from Thereî), he writes about the sense of alienation that all immigrants face when they are considered foreigners in both their native and adopted lands. The poems of Tato Laviera are complex and engaging, and through his words, his spirit, his bilingualism, and his dual identity, he offers the reader poems that are a celebration of life and identity.
X Ex Exis
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Author : Raquel Salas Rivera
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2021-08-17
X Ex Exis written by Raquel Salas Rivera and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-17 with Poetry categories.
Written in the early days of the rise of world-wide fascism and the poet's gender transition, x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación/poems for the nation accepts the invitation to push poetic and gender imaginaries beyond the bounds set by nation. For Salas Rivera, the x marks Puerto Rican transness in a world that seeks trans death, denial, and erasure. Instead of justifying his existence, he takes up the flag of illegibility and writes an apocalyptic book that screams into an uncertain future, armed with nothing to lose.
Do A Julia
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Author : Alberto O. Cappas
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2002
Do A Julia written by Alberto O. Cappas and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Poetry categories.
Clear. Natural. Poignant. These words accurately describe Alberto O. Cappas' work. Cappas understands the suffering and struggles of Puerto Ricans living in Mainland America as well as in Puerto Rico. His poetry traces their hopes, problems, and misconceptions from the island to the mainland where they discover that dreams do die hard. In the poem "Suicide of a Puerto Rican Jibaro," one need not be Puerto Rican to identify with the alienation faced when entering a cold, foreign, and jungle-like world. Cappas successfully explores what such a drastic change can mean for a Puerto Rican away from his island, where he is the majority. In "...Jibaro," for the Puerto Rican man who emigrates to the United States, "A million times his body was raped by the unfriendly cold... to pursue the American Dream..." Cappas is a relentless observer and commentator of what happens when a people leave their homeland, or forget where they come from, to pursue the uncertainties of the American Dream. His poetry, ironic at times, questions whether this dream does exist. In "A Spoken Secret," "Light skin Puerto Ricans forget to speak Spanish... and dark skin Puerto Ricans adopt hot combs to straighten their hair." In "Doña Julia," a woman is trapped like a mouse in America and so commits suicide as a last attempt to return to her homeland. And in "Maria," a young girl sits patiently thinking about her experiences in New York since leaving Puerto Rico and now waits "for the overdose (of a drug) to take effect." Of course this is not to say that all Puerto Ricans who emigrate to the United States end up killing themselves but it does show that Cappas is keenly aware of a sort of cultural and spiritual death that happens to Puerto Ricans and other Latinos when they leave the tropical scenes and adopt certain American values. In the ironic humorous poem, "Her Boricua," a woman buys the Moon, tax-free, and invites her relatives and friends on weekend nights to "admire the beauty of her new possession." She tells them that in America, "you have the freedom to buy anything you want." "Haiti in Puerto Rico" explores the death theme even further. "I recited useless words of a poem to an audience of Puerto Ricans, turned into zombies, refusing to break the spell of all the misfortunes." Doña Julia and Other Poems by Alberto O. Cappas is a book filled with poetic stories, forceful and powerful imagery and messages that will stimulate all minds that come into contact with it. Cappas' language is original and refreshing, which makes his writing very natural and uncluttered with abstractions. Cappas is correct, knows what he needs to say and clearly makes his point. By Jaira Placide New York University