Pedro Pietri

Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry

Herausgeber: Flores, Juan; Lopez Adorno, Pedro

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Produktbeschreibung

Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry is a compelling and humorous collection of poems by the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Poets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 131mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780872866560
• ISBN-10: 0872866564
• Artikelnr.: 41610822

Autorenporträt

Pedro Pietri: Nuyorican poet and playwright Pedro Pietri was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1944, and raised in Manhattan. In the early 1970s, he co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Cafe with Miguel Pinera, Miguel Algarin, and others. He died of stomach cancer in 2004. Juan Flores: Juan Flores is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and director of Latino Studies at New York University. He is the recipient of the Casa de las Americas Prize and the Smithsonian Institution Latino Legacy Award. His books include: From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity published by Columbia University Press. Pedro Lopez Adorno: Pedro Lopez Adorno, born, Puerto Rico, 1954. Author of 13 books. He has been a professor in the Department of Africana and Puetro Rican/Latino Studies of Hunter College since 1987.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Puerto Rican Obituary
Puerto Rican Obituary
The Broken English Dream
Beware of Signs
Suicide Note from a Cockroach in a Low Income Housing Project
Tata
2. Traffic Violations
January Hangover
March Hangover
May Hangover
October Hangover
December Hangover
Traffic Violations
Intermission from Monday
Intermission from Wednesday
Intermission from Thursday
1 A.M. Never Again
1st Untitled Poem
5th Untitled Poem
8th Untitled Poem
10th Untitled Poem
13th Untitled Poem
Conversation in a Darker Room
April 15th Unitil Further Notice
Manual Typewriter Revisited
In Praise of a Total Stranger
Traffic Misdirector
Driving Without a Car
No Parkingat Any Time
I Hate Trees
To Get Drunk You Have to Drink
3. Out of Order
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4. El Party Continues
Orchard Beach
The Party Continues
5. Love Poems to My Surrealist Gypsy
Her Simplicity is Her Mystery
Puerto Rican History Blues
Ode to Witch Liberty
6. Loose Poems
Letter from a Vietnam Vet
The Lady Thinks
Yes--I swear to the statue of my liberty...
After the 7th Drink
After the 9th Drink
After the 11th Drink
Confessions of a Transistor Radio
What Was the Dream About?
El Spanglish National Anthem
The Puerto Rican Embassy Manifesto
Ode to a Grasshopper
Nighttime Sunshine Mind Game
Free Grass for he Working Class
Lost in the Museum of Natural History