El coro : a chorus of Latino and Latina poetry / edited by Martín Espada.
1997
811.54080868073 C822 1997
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Title
El coro : a chorus of Latino and Latina poetry / edited by Martín Espada.
ISBN
1558491104 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781558491106 (cloth : alk. paper)
1558491112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558491113 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558491106 (cloth : alk. paper)
1558491112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558491113 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Language
English
Language Note
English and Spanish.
Description
xiii, 166 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
811.54080868073 C822 1997
System Control No.
(OCoLC)36977305
(OCoLC)36977305
(OCoLC)36977305
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.
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.
Note
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.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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