El coro : a chorus of Latino and Latina poetry / edited by Martín Espada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Espada, Martín, 1957- editor.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Hispanic American authors.

American poetry.

Hispanic Americans--Poetry.

Hispanic Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 166 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English and Spanish.

Summary:

El coro offers proof that Latino/a poetry today is more complex and diverse, more beautiful and powerful, than had been previously acknowledged. Here we find the open expression of anger and grief, self-mocking humor, the music of protest, the quiet assertion of dignity, and the raucous celebration of survival. There are poems about stoop labor and welfare offices and housing projects, but also poems about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Minotaur.

Among the poets are former farm workers and gang members, a practicing physician, an ex-tenant lawyer, two professional chefs, and a Vietnam veteran. One poet was a political prisoner for six years; another staged a famous hunger strike; still another was indicted for her work with Central American refugees. In many ways this collection of poets comprises a chorus. Their song humanizes in the face of dehumanization.

Contents:

Liquid matter ; Talking to the waves ; Voyage / Pedro López Adorno

Los desaparecidos ; The disappeared / Marjorie Agosín

Psalm for Bacalao ; Sonnets for the four horsemen of the apocalypse : long time among us / Jack Agüeros

Nuyorican one wing olive-skin angel / Miguel Algarín

The way it sounds ; The dashboard Virgencita ; The lost & found Señoritas / Julia Alvarez

Receta de Dios #746 ; God's recipe #746 / Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz

Papo, who'd wanted to be an artist ; The night I walk into town ; Reform / Naomi Ayala

Menopause ; Acontecio en un viaje de domingo a la playa ; It happened on a Sunday trip to the beach / Gioconda Belli

Traición ; Betrayal ; Ocupaciones de la crítica ; The critics' trade / Alicia Borinsky

The luxury of regrets ; The return ; Sonnet in the Cuban way / Rafael Campo

El chicle / Ana Castillo

Tango for the broom ; It occurs to me I am the creative/destructive goddess Coatlicue / Sandra Cisneros

The tip ; Before the storm / Judith Ortíz Cofer

Islandis ; The lower East side of Manhattan / Víctor Hernández Cruz

With only smoke to cover me ; The circus / Carlos Cumpián

Thanksgiving / Martín Espada

Puerto Rican discovery #12 : token views ; In the beginning ; Amor Negro / Sandra María Esteves

La sombra de la culpa ; The shadow of guilt ; Requiem ; Requiem ; Language current / Rosario Ferré

Tísica ; The creek that bears the salmon / Diana García

La Terraza / Magdalena Gómez

Ése ; The cost of family ; These days / Ray González

Aphrodisiacal dinner jacket ; The anthropomorphic cabinet ; From Love after the riots, 3:07 AM / Juan Felipe Herrera

La estatuas ; Statues ; Árbol ; Tree / Norberto James

Aurelio's vengeance, Puerto Rico, 1901 ; Jíbaros / Rick Kearns

"The blood of the Chieftains Ran Like Water" ; Scattered vignettes (excerpt) / Frank Lima

Imperialism ; We talk about Spanish ; Milagros / Demetria Martínez

The prodigal son loses his wife ; The prodigal son buys a new car ; Starfish / Dionisio D. Martínez

The translator at the reception for Latin American writers ; Foreign heart / Julio Marzán

Sin el Rezador ; Without the prayer-maker / Víctor Montejo

Honduran ghosts / Pat Mora

Last rites / Rosario Morales

Writing my will ; The assumption / Elizabeth Pérez

Zen, where I'm from ; Hubcaps and hi-fi ; What it was like / Leroy Quintana

Lunch walk / Bessy Reyna

The old woman of Merída / Luis Rodríguez

Poema del Nuevo León ; A walk through the Campo Santo / Raúl R. Salinas

Pompeii and the uses of our imagination ; The essay examination for what you have read in the course World Religions ; Moving our misery / Gary Soto

The wood sculptor ; Xagua Castle, Cienfuegos / Virgil Suárez

Bases loaded ; HE 2-104 : a true planetary nebula in the making / Gloria Vando

Estos árboles ; These trees / Clemente Soto Vélez

Service economy fantastique ; The busboy saw this / Michael Veve

En el claroscuro de los años ; In the Chiaroscuro of the years ; Sólo sé que ahora ; I only know that now / Tino Villanueva

Well-fare with no address ; Popping out babies while dragging your placenta to the mailbox / Enid Santiago Welch.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Coro.

ISBN:

9781558491113

1558491104

9781558491106

1558491112

OCLC:

36977305

Publisher Number:

99983668745