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| Author | : Willie Perdomo |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 82 |
| Release | : 2014-03-25 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0143125230 |
A suite of poems about a percussionist in 1970 Spanish Harlem music circles, from the author of The Crazy Bunch A National Book Critics Circle 2014 Finalist for Poetry Through dream song and elegy, alternate takes and tempos, prizewinning poet Willie Perdomo’s third collection crackles with vitality and dynamism as it imagines the life of a percussionist, rebuilding the landscape of his apprenticeship, love, diaspora, and death. At the beginning of his infernal journey, Shorty Bon Bon recalls his live studio recording with a classic 1970s descarga band, sharing his recollection with an unidentified poet. This opening section is followed by a call-and-response with his greatest love, a singer named Rose, and a visit to Puerto Rico that inhabits a surreal nationalistic dreamscape, before a final jam session where Shorty recognizes his end and a trio of voices seek to converge on his elegy.
| Author | : Willie Perdomo |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2019-04-02 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0525504621 |
From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes "city life with a sense of the transcendent" (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighborhood to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a "crew" coming of age in East Harlem at the beginning of the 1990s. In poems written in couplets, vignettes, sketches, riffs, and dialogue, Perdomo recreates a weekend where surviving members of the crew recall a series of tragic events: "That was the summer we all tried to fly. All but one of us succeeded."
| Author | : Willie Perdomo |
| Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 76 |
| Release | : 1996-01-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780393313833 |
Poems offer a direct look at the harshness of urban life, including drugs, AIDS, and violence
| Author | : Edwin Torres |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 2014-02-27 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0816530750 |
Shattering the definition of Latino into a million little pieces, poet Edwin Torres reassembles identity into something that is more likely and at the same time unexpected, complex, and multifaceted. From conversations in cars to fast-beat lullabies, Ameriscopia is a collection that taps into rhythms both distinctive and dynamic.
| Author | : Felicia Chavez |
| Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2020-04-07 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 164259198X |
In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip-Hop, we honor what was, what is, and what's next.
| Author | : Willie Perdomo |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2010-05-11 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0805082247 |
The award-winning team of Perdomo and Collier ("Visiting Langston") joins forces once again for this tribute to baseball's beloved Roberto Clemente. Full color.
| Author | : José Olivarez |
| Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
| Total Pages | : 83 |
| Release | : 2018-09-04 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1608469557 |
“Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this “devastating debut” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. “The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.” —USA Today
| Author | : Karla Cordero |
| Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
| Total Pages | : 105 |
| Release | : 2018-11-12 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1945649453 |
“Cordero guides us to the collective memory found in her own personal history, reminding us that we are rooted in the same familial tenderness.”—O, The Oprah Magazine HOW TO PULL APART THE EARTH is an homage to the intrinsic thread that weaves the culture of Mexico together with the United States, and the echo of colonization that works to erase it. Cordero skillfully exemplifies the complexity & beauty of growing up in a borderland, and the sacrifices paid for the dream.
| Author | : Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie |
| Publisher | : Agape Editions |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2018-03 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781939675569 |
These poems are just as much about injustice, struggle, and survival as they are about transcendence and love. Strut is a celebration of self-acceptance, ancestry, love, sensuality, and resilience. It's not a book of answers, but a blessed, influenced weaving together of shadow and light.
| Author | : Mary Jo Salter |
| Publisher | : Knopf |
| Total Pages | : 27 |
| Release | : 2013-09-17 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0385349807 |
A beautiful collection of verse––both light and dark, elegiac and affirmative––from one of our most admired poets. The title Nothing by Design is taken from Salter’s villanelle “Complaint for Absolute Divorce,” in which we’re asked to entertain the thought of a no-fault universe. The wary search for peace, personal and public, is a constant theme in poems as varied as “Our Friends the Enemy,” about the Christmas football match between German and British soldiers in 1914; “The Afterlife,” in which Egyptian tomb figurines labor to serve the dead; and “Voice of America,” where Salter returns to the Saint Petersburg of her exiled friend, the late Joseph Brodsky. A section of charming light verse serves as counterpoint to another series entitled “Bed of Letters,” in which Salter addresses the end of a long marriage. Artfully designed, with a highly intentional music, these poems movingly give form to the often unfathomable, yet very real, presence of nothingness and loss in our lives.
