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xiii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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. |
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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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Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Puerto Rican authors.
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Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Turner, Faythe E. (Faythe Elaine)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Puerto Rican writers at home in the USA. Seattle, Wash. : Open Hand Pub. ; New York : Distributed by Talman Co., 1991 (OCoLC)555622401 |
| ISBN |
0940880326 |
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9780940880320 |
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0940880318 (paperback) |
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9780940880313 (paperback) |
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