Puerto Rican writers at home in the USA : an anthology / edited by Faythe Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turner, Faythe E. (Faythe Elaine)

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Puerto Rican authors.

American literature.

Puerto Ricans--United States--Literary collections.

Puerto Ricans.

United States.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xiii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Wash. : Open Hand Pub. ; New York : Distributed by Talman Co., 1991.

Summary:

An anthology of work written by Puerto Rican writers, offering selections from individual authors arranged chronologically by publication.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0940880326 :

9780940880320

0940880318

9780940880313

OCLC:

23144404