Puerto Rican writers at home in the USA : an anthology / edited by Faythe Turner.
1991
PS508.P84 P8 1991
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Title
Puerto Rican writers at home in the USA : an anthology / edited by Faythe Turner.
ISBN
0940880326 :
9780940880320
0940880318 (pbk.) :
9780940880313 (pbk.)
9780940880320
0940880318 (pbk.) :
9780940880313 (pbk.)
Imprint
Seattle, Wash. : Open Hand Pub. ; New York : Distributed by Talman Co., 1991.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
PS508.P84 P8 1991
System Control No.
(OCoLC)23144404
Summary
An anthology of work written by Puerto Rican writers, offering selections from individual authors arranged chronologically by publication.
Formatted Contents Note
Poets' sampler. Ending poem / Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales
Felipa, la filosofa de Rincon que nacío a los 98 años ; Murdered luggage / Jose Angel Figueroa
Puertoricanness ; Immigrants / Aurora Levins Morales
Today is a day of great joy / Victor Hernández Cruz
Traffic misdirector / Pedro Pietri
Christmas Eve ; Nuyorican café / Miguel Algarín
This is not the place where I was born / Miguel Piñero
The idea of islands / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Poem ; The man who came to the last floor ; African things / Victor Hernández Cruz
Intermission from Monday / Pedro Pietri
For South Bronx / Sandra Maria Esteves
Getting out alive / Rosario Morales
"Puerto Rico" made in Japan / Jose Angel Figueroa
Borinkins in Hawaii ; Thursday / Victor Hernández Cruz
David leaves the Saints for Paterson / Martín Espada
Discovery / Victor Hernández Cruz
Weaver / Sandra Maria Esteves.
Anthology. from A Puerto Rican in New York. Hiawatha into Spanish ; Easy job, good wages ; I heard a man crying ; Kipling and I ; A hero in the junk truck ; Little things are big ; The mother, the young daughter, myself, and all of us / Jesus Colon
from Down these mean streets. Chapter IV. "Alien turf" / Piri Thomas
from Snaps. Spirits ; Latin & soul for Joe Bataan ; Energy ; Going uptown to visit Miriam ; Ruskie's boy ; Slick ; Three days/out of Franklin ; from Mainland. You gotta have your tips on fire ; Chicago/3 hours ; Entering Detroit ; Poem ; Loíza Aldea ; Poem ; from Tropicalization. A tale of bananas ; Side 4 ; Side 12 ; Side 18 ; Side 20 ; Side 21 ; Side 22 ; Side 26 ; Side 32 ; from By lingual wholes. Mountain building ; For the far-out experimental writer ; Two guitars ; If chickens could talk ; The swans' book ; Ironing goatskin ; The physics of Ochum ; Anonymous ; Don Arturo : a story of migration ; from Rhythm, content and form. It's Miller time / Victor Hernández Cruz
from La Bodega sold dreams. A lower east side poem ; Running scared ; La Bodega sold dreams ; On the day they buried my mother
/ Miguel Piñero
from El Bronx remembered. Mr. Mendelsohn ; The wrong lunch line / Nicholasa Mohr
from Traffic violations. The first day of spring ; Intermission from Monday ; Intermission from Wednesday ; Intermission from Thursday ; Intermission from Friday ; Intermission from Saturday ; Intermission from Sunday ; 1st untitled poem ; 10th untitled poem ; The night is out of sight ; The title of this poem was lost ; How do your eggs want you ; 3rd untitled poem ; 7th untitled poem ; 9th untitled poem / Pedro Pietri
from Yerba buena. For Lolita Lebron ; From Fanon ; For Fidel Castro ; 1st poem for Cuba ; Some people are about jam ; Ahora ; Here ; Take the hearts of children ; from Tropical rains. It is raining today ; In the beginning ; A celebration of home birth : November 15th, 1981 ; Lil' Pito ; One woman / Sandra Maria Esteves
from Mongo affair. Happy New Year ; Meeting Gaylen's 5th grade class ; Angelitos negros : a salsa ballet ; from On call. Trampling ; Rosa ; Infections ; Tiger lady ; "Always throw the first punch" ; El jibarito moderno ; Wire tap ; Talking ; Broadway opening ; Dante park ; Taos Pueblo Indians : 700 strong according to Bobby's last census / Miguel Algarín
from Noo Jork. Poet Pedro Pietri ; Taino ; HomeMade smiles ; Pablo Neruda ; Boricua ; Confessions from the last cloud / Jose Angel Figueroa
Making it ; Chocolate confessions ; Troubled awakening ; To the Latin lover I left at the candy store ; Solo palabras ; A desert cry ; Lost daughter ; Looking deep / Magdalena Gomez ; from The margarita poems. The statue ; No hatchet job ; Only the hand that stirs knows what's in the pot / Luz Maria Umpierre
from Trumpets from the islands of their eviction. The Spanish of our out-loud dreams ; Toque de queda : curfew in Lawrence ; Tony went to the bodega but he didn't buy anything ; Water, white cotton, and the rich man ; The jeep driver ; La tormenta ; Green and red, verde y rojo ; The moon shatters on Alabama Avenue / Martín Espada
Unspoken ; Old women ; What we feared ; The life of an echo ; Anniversary ; Fever ; Spring ; The campesino's lament ; They never grew old ; Counting ; The dream of birth ; The hour of the siesta ; Saint Rose of Lima ; Seizing the day ; Correspondence ; How to get a baby ; Why there are no unicorns ; from Penelope's journal. Learning to walk alone ; The drowned sailor / Judith Ortiz Cofer
from Getting home alive. The dinner ; I recognize you ; I am the reasonable one ; Spring fever ; My revolution ; Africe / Rosario Morales
from Getting home alive. Kitchens ; 1930 ; South ; The other heritage ; Old countries ; A child's Christmas in Puerto Rico ; Sugar poem ; Tita's poem / Aurora Levins Morales
from Translations without originals. Sunday morning in Old San Juan ; In the backyard ; Eve ; Emergency / Julio Marzán
from Mendosa's dreams. Mercury Gomez ; The Barbosa express / Ed Vega.
Felipa, la filosofa de Rincon que nacío a los 98 años ; Murdered luggage / Jose Angel Figueroa
Puertoricanness ; Immigrants / Aurora Levins Morales
Today is a day of great joy / Victor Hernández Cruz
Traffic misdirector / Pedro Pietri
Christmas Eve ; Nuyorican café / Miguel Algarín
This is not the place where I was born / Miguel Piñero
The idea of islands / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Poem ; The man who came to the last floor ; African things / Victor Hernández Cruz
Intermission from Monday / Pedro Pietri
For South Bronx / Sandra Maria Esteves
Getting out alive / Rosario Morales
"Puerto Rico" made in Japan / Jose Angel Figueroa
Borinkins in Hawaii ; Thursday / Victor Hernández Cruz
David leaves the Saints for Paterson / Martín Espada
Discovery / Victor Hernández Cruz
Weaver / Sandra Maria Esteves.
Anthology. from A Puerto Rican in New York. Hiawatha into Spanish ; Easy job, good wages ; I heard a man crying ; Kipling and I ; A hero in the junk truck ; Little things are big ; The mother, the young daughter, myself, and all of us / Jesus Colon
from Down these mean streets. Chapter IV. "Alien turf" / Piri Thomas
from Snaps. Spirits ; Latin & soul for Joe Bataan ; Energy ; Going uptown to visit Miriam ; Ruskie's boy ; Slick ; Three days/out of Franklin ; from Mainland. You gotta have your tips on fire ; Chicago/3 hours ; Entering Detroit ; Poem ; Loíza Aldea ; Poem ; from Tropicalization. A tale of bananas ; Side 4 ; Side 12 ; Side 18 ; Side 20 ; Side 21 ; Side 22 ; Side 26 ; Side 32 ; from By lingual wholes. Mountain building ; For the far-out experimental writer ; Two guitars ; If chickens could talk ; The swans' book ; Ironing goatskin ; The physics of Ochum ; Anonymous ; Don Arturo : a story of migration ; from Rhythm, content and form. It's Miller time / Victor Hernández Cruz
from La Bodega sold dreams. A lower east side poem ; Running scared ; La Bodega sold dreams ; On the day they buried my mother
/ Miguel Piñero
from El Bronx remembered. Mr. Mendelsohn ; The wrong lunch line / Nicholasa Mohr
from Traffic violations. The first day of spring ; Intermission from Monday ; Intermission from Wednesday ; Intermission from Thursday ; Intermission from Friday ; Intermission from Saturday ; Intermission from Sunday ; 1st untitled poem ; 10th untitled poem ; The night is out of sight ; The title of this poem was lost ; How do your eggs want you ; 3rd untitled poem ; 7th untitled poem ; 9th untitled poem / Pedro Pietri
from Yerba buena. For Lolita Lebron ; From Fanon ; For Fidel Castro ; 1st poem for Cuba ; Some people are about jam ; Ahora ; Here ; Take the hearts of children ; from Tropical rains. It is raining today ; In the beginning ; A celebration of home birth : November 15th, 1981 ; Lil' Pito ; One woman / Sandra Maria Esteves
from Mongo affair. Happy New Year ; Meeting Gaylen's 5th grade class ; Angelitos negros : a salsa ballet ; from On call. Trampling ; Rosa ; Infections ; Tiger lady ; "Always throw the first punch" ; El jibarito moderno ; Wire tap ; Talking ; Broadway opening ; Dante park ; Taos Pueblo Indians : 700 strong according to Bobby's last census / Miguel Algarín
from Noo Jork. Poet Pedro Pietri ; Taino ; HomeMade smiles ; Pablo Neruda ; Boricua ; Confessions from the last cloud / Jose Angel Figueroa
Making it ; Chocolate confessions ; Troubled awakening ; To the Latin lover I left at the candy store ; Solo palabras ; A desert cry ; Lost daughter ; Looking deep / Magdalena Gomez ; from The margarita poems. The statue ; No hatchet job ; Only the hand that stirs knows what's in the pot / Luz Maria Umpierre
from Trumpets from the islands of their eviction. The Spanish of our out-loud dreams ; Toque de queda : curfew in Lawrence ; Tony went to the bodega but he didn't buy anything ; Water, white cotton, and the rich man ; The jeep driver ; La tormenta ; Green and red, verde y rojo ; The moon shatters on Alabama Avenue / Martín Espada
Unspoken ; Old women ; What we feared ; The life of an echo ; Anniversary ; Fever ; Spring ; The campesino's lament ; They never grew old ; Counting ; The dream of birth ; The hour of the siesta ; Saint Rose of Lima ; Seizing the day ; Correspondence ; How to get a baby ; Why there are no unicorns ; from Penelope's journal. Learning to walk alone ; The drowned sailor / Judith Ortiz Cofer
from Getting home alive. The dinner ; I recognize you ; I am the reasonable one ; Spring fever ; My revolution ; Africe / Rosario Morales
from Getting home alive. Kitchens ; 1930 ; South ; The other heritage ; Old countries ; A child's Christmas in Puerto Rico ; Sugar poem ; Tita's poem / Aurora Levins Morales
from Translations without originals. Sunday morning in Old San Juan ; In the backyard ; Eve ; Emergency / Julio Marzán
from Mendosa's dreams. Mercury Gomez ; The Barbosa express / Ed Vega.
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