Paper dance : 55 Latino poets

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Title:

Paper dance : 55 Latino poets

Author:

Cruz, Victor Hernández, 1949- editor.

ISBN:

9780892552016

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

xiii, 242 pages ; 22 cm

Abstract:

A collection of poetry from 55 Latinos/as. The first and still the most complete anthology of the best U.S. Latino and Latina poets from diverse origins in the Latin world: Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. "Readers should be prepared for weeping, laughing, and awe" (Harvard Review). Alvarez, Baca, Cervantes, Espada, Firmat, Gonzalez, Medina, Pau-Llosa, Rios, Rodríguez, Saenz, Villanueva, et al.

Contents:

Shame ; L.A. prayer / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Storm windows ; Dusting ; Homecoming / Julia Alvarez -- from Poem VI ; from Poem XXIII / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Leavings ; Abuelo Leopoldo sneaks a bite of cream cheese ; For El Niño on his arrival in the United States / Sandra M. Castillo -- Pulling the muse from the drum ; Herald of Cocos (I) / Adrian Castro -- Morning geography ; Women talk of flowers at dusk / Rosemary Catacalos -- The poet is served her papers ; Blue full moon in witch ; From the cables of genocide / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- The Latin deli: an ars poetica ; The medium's burden ; My grandfather's hat / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- On being alone: Berkeley, 1969 ; Rehearsals for the wreck / Lucha Corpi -- From Mesa Blanca ; Mesa Blanca ; Time zones / Victor Hernández Cruz -- Photograph from Berlin ; Summer storm ; Witness / Silvia Curbelo -- The lover of a subversive is also a subversive ; Coca-Cola and Coco frío ; La tumba de Buenaventura Roig / Martín Espada -- Who is going to tell me? ; Oshun's love poem ; Ocha / Sandra Maria Esteves -- Nobody knows my name ; Ghost writing ; Bilingual blues / Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- La curandera ; When living was a labor camp called Montgomery / Diana Garcia -- Day of the Dead ; Red line / Guy Garcia -- Outline for a Cuban folk-dance ; Prague, 1924 / Lourdes Gil -- Mestiza legacy ; Telling ; It happens while presidents play golf / Magdalena Gómez -- The recurring dream of the snakes as a gift for my aching shoulder ; How? ; Homage to Lucian Blaga ; Memory of the hand / Ray Gonzalez -- B.C., before Clinton ; "Damn!" / César A. González-T. -- Rain lantern ; Tropical weather report ; The structure of a dream / Daniel del Valle Hernández -- Southern California nocturne (circa 1964) ; The sea during springtime / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Sorting Miami ; Finding home ; An unexpected conversion / Carolina Hospital -- El Elvis ; Family ; The spy / Wasabi Kanastoga -- Juana la Loca ; Christmas at the health care center on the west mesa ; Discourse of the severed head of Joaquin Murieta / E.A. Mares -- Hit and run ; Discovering America / Demetria Martínez -- Standard time: novena for my father ; Variations on Omar Sharif / Dionisio D. Martínez -- Unlucky cracks ; The Sierras ; The chase / Victor Martínez -- Ethnic poetry ; Ode ; The old man / Julio Marzán -- Calle de la Amargura ; Philadelphia ; Cuba / Pablo Medina -- EcologicHumanitarianIsm ; The pigeon squawk / Jesús Papoleto Meléndez -- Artista Cubano ; Sly woman / Pat Mora -- Amantes sin tiempo ; Lorca in hell / Gean Moreno -- Repetitions ; Summer of the body ; Mariano, the air / Elías Miguel Muñoz -- Frutas ; Mulata ; Carlos Alfonzo / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- The first rock and roll song of 1970 ; Ode to Witch Liberty ; Nighttime sunshine mind game / Pedro Pietri -- Aye que Maria Felix (or Maria was no virgin) ; Post-colonial contemplations / Naomi Quiñonez -- Poem written during one of my yearly visits from California ; Don Chuey / Leroy V. Quintana -- Kid Hielero ; Combing my hair in the hall / Alberto Alvaro Ríos -- Poetry of holy water ; Bird language ; Death of the lady slipper / Diana Rivera -- Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird (1940) ; The dream ; Self-portrait with cropped hair (1940) / Margarita Luna Robles -- They come to dance ; Bethlehem no more ; Deathwatch / Luis J. Rodríguez -- Muchacha (after Jamaica) / Cecilia Rodríguez-Milanés -- Again I find him ; Marilyn Monroe Indian / Leo Romero -- Uncles (who lie still and perfect) / Benjamin Alire Sáenz -- For Kathy who likes happy endings ; Alba ; For Carrie / Deborah Salazar -- Izquierdo ; Jicotea/turtle / Virgil Suarez -- Letter to Ti ; Marked ; Compliments / Carmen Tafolla -- Night in Oaxaca ; The girl in the treehouse / David Unger -- English con salsa ; Where you from? ; The hands / Gina Valdez -- New York City mira mira blues ; Cante jondo ; Ronda / Gloria Vando -- Why my mother's teeth remained in Cuba ; First breakfast / E.J. Vega -- Delicious death ; The wind ; An act of creation / Alma Luz Villanueva -- Scene from the movie Giant ; Haciendo apenas la recolección / Tino Villanueva -- Pony ; Trans Pacific / Rafael Zepeda.

Subject Term:

American poetry -- Hispanic American authors.

Hispanic Americans -- Poetry.

American poetry -- Hispanic American authors. (OCoLC)fst00807373

Hispanic Americans. (OCoLC)fst00957523

Lyrik

Spanish Literature.

Added Author:

Cruz, Victor Hernández, 1949-

Quintana, Leroy,

Suárez, Virgil, 1962-

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Summary

A definitive anthology of the best United States Latino and Latina poets from diverse origins in the Latin world: Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Puerto Rico: Julia Alvarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Juan Felipe Herrera, Pat Mora,Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Luis J. Rodrguez, and Tino Villeanueva, aswell as emerging writers, including Sandra M. Castillo, Adrian Castro,Silvia Curbelo, Diana Rivera, and Gina Valdez.

Reviews (2)

Booklist Review

This vibrant anthology of the work of Latino and Latina poets living in the U.S. is a celebration of social, cultural, and private interfaces. Their poems examine the complex and ever-evolving relationships between tradition and change, Spanish and English, rural and urban, private and public, female and male, young and old, past and present, native and immigrant, dream and reality, love and despair, joy and anger, art and life. These profound themes engage such seasoned talents as Julia Alvarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Juan Felipe Herrera, Pat Mora, Alberto Alvaro Ros, Luis J. Rodrguez, and Tino Villeanueva, as well as emerging writers, including Sandra M. Castillo, Adrian Castro, Silvia Curbelo, Diana Rivera, and Gina Valdez. A poetry collection would usually be described as a chorus of voices, but the editors were right to choose dance for their title. These poems do dance in a dazzling array of tempos and moods. Some are elegant and graceful; others are clownish and mocking, frenzied, sultry, or threatening, but all are charged with the electricity of emotion, the current of thought and observation, and the rhythms of the body. --Donna Seaman

Library Journal Review

These Are Not Sweet Girls, an anthology of 53 Latin American poets (including a single Brazilian, Adelia Prado), strives to combat "the offical discourse of power" that keeps women's poetry outside the literary mainstream. Poets range from Gabriela Mistral (born 1889) and Alfonsina Storni (born 1892) to Teresa Calderon and editor Agosin (both born 1955). Chilean Alicia Galaz Vivar looks to the day when men erase their superior smiles and wash away "the sad fury of mortal decisions"; Puerto Rican Olga Nolla lashes out at Aristotle for calling women "mutilated men"; and Mexican Rosario Castellanos reflects that "we give life only to what we hate." The anthology is not bilingual, and the translators are individually noted. Although none of the Sweet Girls cross over into Paper Dance, nearly half of the 55 Latino poets featured in Paper Dance are also women, and their bicultural testimony is sometimes more intense. Sandra Maria Esteves condemns Spain's "legacy denied," and Magdalena Gomez curses Columbus "who feared no error/as long as the crucified/did not look like himself." Others re-create Hispanic figures such as Joaquin Murieta or Federico Garcia Lorca or invent a "Marilyn Monroe Indian." Americans of every Hispanic background are represented, urban as well as rural. Julia Alvarez and Jimmy Santiago Baca are here, but (inexplicably) Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo are not. Recommended for poetry collections.Jack Shreve, Allegany Community Coll., Cumberland, Md. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.