Manteca! : an anthology of Afro-Latin@ poets / edited by Melissa Castillo-Garsow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Planas, Melissa Castillo, 1984- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Latin America--Poetry.

Black people.

Latin American poetry--Black authors.

Latin American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Anthology of Afro-Latina poets

Anthology of Afro-Latino poets

Place of Publication:

Houston, Texas : Arte Publico Press, 2017.

Summary:

This anthology contains poems by more than 35 Afro-Latin@ poets writing about race, identity and culture.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Elizabeth Acevedo

February 10, 2015

Regularization Plan for Foreigners, 1937

Juan Dolio Beach

Gustavo Adolfo Aybar

Wallflower Mambo

An Absolute Necessity

Baseball's Travelin' Men

Breaking Strength

Morir soñando

Miguel Algarín

Survival

A Mongo Affair

A Salsa Ballet: Angelitos Negros

Relish/Sabrosura

Ray Barreto: December 4, 1976

Proem II

HIV

Nuyorican Angel Voice

Nuyorican Angel Papo

Jane Alberdeston Coralin

Táina Dreams

Rosa's Beauty

For Black Girls Who Don't Know

Portorican Anthem

Pull

Make-Believe

Peggy Robles-Alvarado

Boca Grande

Negrito Lindo

¡Bomba!

When They Call My Name

If Only They Knew

Josefina Báez

"Nosotros no somos como ustedes"

Pedacito de mi alma

"Com'on everybody clap your hands ooooh . . . "

My name is pure history

Carmen Bardeguez Brown

Remembrance

Señora

Oye, Miguel

El Bronx

Rican Issues

Ariana Brown

Recover

Ahuacatl

Coatl: An Old Myth & A Few New Ones, In Three

A Quick Story

Natalie N. Caro

Cruz

Dear White People

Natasha Carrizosa

Pennies in my blood

Mejiafricana

Catch A Fire

Adrián Castro

Mokongo y to' esa gente

Incantation for the Word

Misa caribeña

Río Cortez

I'm Forced to Imagine There Are Two of Me Here

Havana Ghazal

Trip for a While, After Curtis Mayfield

Sandra María Esteves

To These Poets

Where I'm From

Philosophy of Cool

Puerto Rican Discovery Number One

amor negro

For Tito

From Fanon

Here

Puerto Rican Discovery Number Three, Not Neither

Mariposa

Love Poem for Ntozake & Me

Homage to My Hair

1980

Ode to the Diasporican

Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah Or Broken Ends.

Shaggy Flores

Negritude

Lucumí

We, the Children of Juan Epstein

Aracelis Girmay

Arroz Poética

Santa Ana of the Grocery Carts

Teeth

Ode to the Little "r"

Running Home, I Saw the Plants

Night, for Henry Dumas

Modesto Flako Jiménez

Gracias, Margarita Agramonte

The Curse of the Goat

El taxista

Tato Laviera

Tito Madera Smith

Jorge Brandon

angelitos eulogy in anger

salsa of bethesda fountain

commonwealth

negrito

Lady Liberty

Mixturao

Nideaquínideallá

Raina J. León

Two pounds, night sky notes

Southwest Philadelphia, 1988

Maldición de Borikén a los León: la ciega en paraíso

Tango criollo

bull | machete | bullet | laurel |time

Esperanza Malavé Cintrón

Chocolate City Latina

This poem is about God

mis hermanos

Home

Song for My Father

Reynold Martín

Wade

Amie-Rica Sees a Therapist

Mama's Legend

Tony Medina

Dame un traguito

Broke Baroque

Poem for Víctor Hernández Cruz

My Father Is a Brown Scar

Arrival

Broke Celebrity (Culture)

Marianela Medrano

Jamón y queso

Cara sucia

El corte

Crossing El Masacre

Jesús Papoleto Meléndez

A San Diego Southern/African Night

sister

Message to Urban Sightseers

¡HEY YO/YO SOY!

E. Ethelbert Miller

Panama

Tomorrow

Juanita

Spanish Conversation

Solidarity

The Sea

Aja Monet

Una ofrenda

Granma

Left Behind

Anthony Morales

Clason Point Angel of the BackPark

Anti Gentrification Spell

Abuelita Abuelita

Afro Latinidad, or Carlito Browniest

John Murillo

Practicing Fade-Aways

How to split a cold one

Renegades of Funk

Sherman Ave. Love Poem

The Corner

Trouble Man

Raquel I. Penzo

My Brooklyn

The Talk

Willie Perdomo

Ten-Pound Draw

The New Boogaloo

Look What I Found

Should Old Shit Be Forgot.

Side A (3:2)

Miguel Piñero

A Lower East Side Poem

The Book of Genesis According to San Miguelito

The Menudo of A Cuchifrito Love Affair

New York City Hard Time Blues

Noel Quiñones

Afro/Rikan

Wepa: Babel Tongue

The Puerto Rican Maid Responds to Kendrick

Gabriel Ramírez

resilience

what i learned in u.s. history class

alive=blk

Luivette Resto

The Legendary Legs of the Rodriguez Women

Painted Walls

Garcia Folklore #27

Solitary Encounters

Louis Reyes Rivera

no hole in punctured poem

"the adverb."

"like Toussaint, so Martí"

Excerpt from "cu/bop"

The Disdirected

Witness: Imagination

Bonafide Rojas

Notes On the Return to the Island

Thirty Ways to Look at a Nuyorican

Remember Their Names

Mother

The Old New Story

The Creed of A Graffiti Writer

Mayra Santos-Febres

A Woman that Writes

Nicole Sealey

Instead of Executions, Think Death Erections

Virginia Is for Lovers

Even the Gods

In Igboland

Lorenzo Thomas

Inauguration

MMDCCXIII ½

The Leopard

Dirge for Amadou Diallo

God Sends Love Disguised as Ordinary People

Joaquín Zihuatanejo

Archetypes

We Are Because They Were

What You Have Taken This Poem Redeems Co-written with Antwaun "Twain" Davis

About the Poets

Permissions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781518501234

1518501230

OCLC:

1022846259