1 option
Inocencia perversa = Perverse innocence / by Bruce-Novoa.
LIBRA PS3552.R793 I5 1977
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bruce-Novoa, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 71 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Perverse innocence
- Place of Publication:
- Phoenix : Baleen Press, [1977]
- Language Note:
- English and Spanish on opposite pages.
- Summary:
- "This is the first collection of poems by a Chicano poet who combines eroticism with lyricism and rebelliousness. The 21 poems appear both in Spanish and in English. Bruce-Novoa takes the reader through surrealistic, devouring nights of a thousand and one stories, watched by a "doll who died of fright," past glyphs and codices, led by the poetic influences of Octavio Paz, Elsa Cross, and the "honey hued, black honey" voice of the blind writer Juan García Ponce. He allows the reader to see beyond a feigned cynicism that cloaks a sadness of spirit and beyond women who wait like impatient black spiders to the perverse, insatiable innocence of a smiling girl "who well knows how far she has come and how...." The author speaks in an individual tone: compelling and compassionate; his subject matter is uninhibited yet adroitly treated. Inocencia Perversa/Perverse Innocence marks the emergence of an important poet on the American scene."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Isn't it hard = No es muy difícil
- The blind Juan sang = Cantaba el ciego Juan
- Silence = Silencio
- The coffee house = El café
- Poor little word = Pobrecita palabra
- Sad? = ¿Triste?
- Door = Puerta
- Look at them, woman = Velos, mujer
- When she really arrives = Cuando de veras llegue
- The student = La alumna
- You-are-you = Tú-eres-tú
- Perverse innocence = Inocencia perversa
- The student, II = La alumna, II
- Genesis = Génesis
- The black spider = La araña negra
- Images of the 2nd sacrifice = Imágenes del 2° sacrificio
- Triad = Triad
- The day you return = El día que regreses
- "Homage and desecration" = "Homenaje y profanación"
- Your smile = Tu sonrisa
- Chicana ariadna = Chicana ariadna.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bruce-Novoa, 1944- Inocencia perversa.
- ISBN:
- 0912074140
- 9780912074146
- OCLC:
- 6037655
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.