Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times
edited by Roberto Marquez
University of Massachusetts Press, 2006 eISBN: 978-1-61376-124-3 | Paper: 978-1-55849-562-3 Library of Congress Classification PQ7434.5.P84 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 861.008097295
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of sixty-four poets, as well as many previously inaccessible selections from Puerto Rico's tradition of popular verse forms—coplas, décimas, bombas—produced by anonymous writers. All are presented in English, contextualized and individually introduced by Roberto Márquez, a distinguished translator and literary scholar.
Book I, "Before Columbus and After, 1400–1820," focuses on the foundational origins of Puerto Rican poetry and the clash of competing visions embodied in the rich and heterogeneous corpus of anonymous popular verse forms. Book II, "The Creole Matrix: Notions of Nation, 1821–1950s," concentrates on the period in which a distinctively Puerto Rican consciousness emerged and the island's subsequent experience as a U. S. colony in the decades after the Spanish-Cuban-American War up to formal establishment of Commonwealth status. Books III and IV are devoted, respectively, to the era of insular "Critique, Revolt, and Renewal" in the mid-twentieth century, and to the "New Creoles, New Definitions" that developed in the late twentieth century, including the distinct and parallel growth of Puerto Rican poetry in the mainland United States.
In addition to a general introduction and concise biographical profiles of each poet, Márquez provides a detailed "Chronology" of the history of the island that has shaped the poets and informed their work. The resulting volume is a major contribution to our understanding and appreciation of Puerto Rican literature and the heterogeneous society in which it has been produced.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Roberto Márquez is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Mount Holyoke College.
REVIEWS
"Without a doubt, the most complete and comprehensive anthology of Puerto Rican poetry available in Spanish or English . . . a timely and important addition to the study of Latin American literature in general and Puerto Rican literature in particular."—William Luis, author of Dance between Two Cultures:
Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States
"I cannot emphasize enough what an important book this is, and how admirable and noble Roberto Márquez has been to dedicate himself with such perseverance and intelligence to this imposing task. He has built a forceful cultural bridge just where and when one is needed, and gratitude will surely be due him for generations to come."—Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip Hop:
Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity
"There are few scholars who could have pulled this off with the erudition, wit and sensibility that Roberto Márquez has. . . . Márquez has managed to give us a true anthology of Puerto Rican poetry."—CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
"This potent anthology not only offers a multiplicity of perspectives on Puerto Rican literature and society but deepens our understanding of the commonwealth's history."—Library Journal
"The intent of this book is to provide non-Spanish speaking Anglophones access to the multicultural originality and geographical scope of Puerto Rican poetic traditions. Márquez skillfully achieves this goal. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice
"From the very first pages this anthology takes you by surprise. It is a well-structured and clearly laid-out evolution of Puerto Rican poetry, from three centuries before Spanish colonization right up to the present, and it is full of historical detail and cultural context. The scholarship is astute and insightful, and allows the voices of those who were "there" to speak about the poetry they heard when they first encountered it. This allows for a historical context to emerge with the poetry that gives meaning and substance to a culture that has often been imposed on by other, dominant cultures. . . . This is an outstanding anthology and deserves its place among the best anthologies written on Caribbean and Latin American literature."—Kliatt
"Major themes in history and the subject of poetry don't usually go together in the curriculum, but this anthology shows why they should. . . . Márquez's deft translations, many of poems previously unavailable in English, leave every lyric voice clear and unburdened."—Multicultural Review
"These are not just excellent translations; surely they are some of the best translations available for many of these poems, if not the only ones. . . . This collection is a treasure trove that has the potential to bring an underappreciated genre successfully to a new audeicne, and a priceless resource for anyone exploring Puerto Rican poetry, especially those who previously would have been hindered by language or lack of available resources."—Caribbean Review of Books
"In Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times, editor Roberto Marquez provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto-Rican poetry that dates back to the era of conquest and colonization to contemporary poets on both the mainland and the islands....Although no one anthology can truly capture the vast works of contemporary Puerto Rican writers, this collection is a first step in the right direction...[by] providing an in-depth understanding and appreciation of the genesis and exploration of Puerto-Rican literature."—Phati'tude Literary Magazine
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Book One: Before Columbus and After, 1400?1820
Aboriginal Beginnings: The Areyto
Gonzalo Fern ndez de Oviedo y Vald¿s (1478?1557)
. . . [O]f the areytos and dances with singing, and their form of preserving the memory of past events which they wish recalled by their descendents and their people (1535)
The Colonial Crucible, 1508?1820
Conquistadors, Tropical Spaniards, Mimic Men, Proto-Creoles
Juan de Castellanos (1522?1607)
Elegy the Sixth (1589)
Fray Dami n López de Haro (1581?1648)
Puerto Rico (1644)
Anonymous
[Riposte] (1644)
Francisco de Ayerra Santa María (1630?1708)
Sonnet upon Her Death to Sor Juana In¿s de la Cruz (1691)
Juan Rodríguez Calderón (1775?1839+)
To the Blessed and Beautiful Island of San Juan de Puerto Rico: A Canto (1816)
Miguel Cabrera (Dates Unknown)
The Jíbaro?s Verses (1820)
Vox Populi
Coplas I
D¿cimas I
Bombas
Songs
Coplas II
D¿cimas II
Book Two: The Creole Matrix: Notions of Nation, 1821?1950s
Emergence to Intervention, 1821?1898
María Bibiana Benítez (1783?1875)
The Nymph of Puerto Rico to Justice (1832)
Alejandrina Benítez (1819?1879)
To My Lamp (1846)
The Submarine Cable in Puerto Rico (1870)
Santiago Vidarte (1827?1848)
Insomnia (1846)
Manuel A. Alonso (1822?1889)
The Puerto Rican (1849)
A Jíbaro Wedding (1849)
Jos¿ Gualberto Padilla (1829?1896)
To a Palacio, a Caribe: Reply to Manuel del Palacio (1868)
Paraphrasis of the Sonnet ?Puerto Rico? by Manuel del Palacio
(1869)
Lola Rodríguez de Tió (1843?1924)
Anthem (1868)
Couplets (1876)
To My Absent Husband (1878)
Self-portrait (1893)
Mist (1893+)
Jos¿ Gautier Benítez (1851?1880)
Puerto Rico (1879)
To My Friends (1880)
Francisco Gonzalo ("Pachín") Marín (1863?1897)
Hope (1898)
The Rag (1898)
Luis Muñoz Rivera (1859?1916)
Nulla Est Redemptio (1889)
XXXIV (1891)
To Any Compatriot (1902)
To Her (1902)
Tradition, Trauma, and Transition
Parnassians, Modernistas, Hispanophiles, Jibaristas
Jos¿ de Jesús Domínguez (1843?1898)
The White Hourie (1886)
Echoes of an Era (1889?)
Trinidad Padilla de Sanz (1864?1958)
The Bath (1926)
Tropical Landscape (1943)
Jos¿ de Diego (1866?1918)
To Spain (1916)
Hallelujahs (1916)
The Last String (1916)
Virgilio D vila (1869?1943)
Creole Venus (1912)
Nostalgia (1916)
The Town (1917)
Luis Llor¿ns Torres (1878?1944)
Song of the Antilles (1913)
Distant Song (1926)
Creole Life (1935)
Collores (1940)
Feminists, Mystics, Negristas, Vanguardistas, and Nationalists
Clara Lair (1895?1973)
New York Nocturns (1928)
Dark Adonis (1937)
Frivolity (1937)
Credo (1950)
Evaristo Ribera Chevremont (1896?1976)
San Juan (1938)
The Symphony of the Hammers (1943)
Plenitude (1943)
My Butterfly of an Antillean Isle (1964)
Luis Pal¿s Matos (1898?1959)
Festive Song to Be Wept (1929)
Prelude in Puerto Rican (1937)
Mulatta Antilles (1937)
The Call (1953)
Jos¿ Isaac de Diego Padró (1899?1974)
Semela and the Satyr (1921)
Epistle to the Pelican in the Park (1957)
Fernando Fortunato Vizcarrondo (1901?1977)
En Yo Gramma, Where She At?
Clemente Soto V¿lez (1905?1993)
Solitude (1937)
The Achieved Emotion (1954)
#18 (1979)
Juan Antonio Corretjer (1908?1985)
Jail Cell (1949)
In Life It?s Always a Going (1957)
The Convoy (1967)
Puerto Rican on the Moon (1980)
Carmen María Colón Pellot (b. 1911)
Motifs of Mulatta Envy (1938)
Song to the Mulatto Race (Making of the Verse) (1938)
The Land Is a Mulatta (1938)
Julia de Burgos (1914?1953)
To Julia de Burgos (1938)
My, Oh My, Oh My of the Nappy-Haired Negress (1938)
Poem for My Death (1954)
Francisco Matos Paoli (1915?2000)
Antisonnet to the Noble Sea (1944)
Biographical Summary (1978)
The Puerto Ricans (1985)
Violeta López Suria (b. 1926)
A Few Stars in My Room (1957)
Litany II with Embedded Sonnet (1961)
Lovingly (1961)
Book Three: Critique, Revolt, and Renewal
Hugo Margenat (1933?1957)
Landscape (1953)
Active Poetics (1955)
God Is Good (1956)
Links (1956)
Iris M. Zavala (b. 1936)
Words Words (1971)
XXI (1973)
The Pelagic Glance (1982)
Rosario Ferr¿ (b. 1938)
Opprobrium (1982)
The Shadow of Guilt (1995)
Language Duel (2001)
The Bones of Conquerors (2002)
Olga Nolla (1938?2001)
A Sentimental Education (1976)
Ariadne, Postmodern, Constructs a Labyrinth (1994)
I Regret Having to Contradict My Elders (1994)
A Poet Doesn?t Know for Certain (1994)
Marcos Rodríguez Frese (b. 1941)
Superavit (1969)
Hymn (1969)
Vital Poetics (1971)
Andr¿s Castro Ríos (b. 1942)
Celebrating Vallejo (19??)
The Crime Was in Grenada (1986)
The Night and Poetry Have Something to Say (1996)
Hjalmar Flax (b. 1942)
Synthesis (1978)
The Lord?s Prayer (1982)
Determinations (1982)
Poetic Injustice (1985)
In Articulo Mortis (2003)
Vicente Rodríguez Nietzsche (b. 1942)
Love Always Begins
Love Spumes Us Up in Its Fluid Cascade
Jorge María Ruscalleda Bercedóniz (b. 1944)
Let Not the Poets Say (1971)
Homicide (1997)
My Mother Is a Seamstress (1997)
Juan de Matta García (b. 1947)
Satiric D¿cima (1990)
Manuel Ramos Otero (1948?1990)
Much as she would not Penelope abides . . . (1985)
I Left Behind the Streets of My Country (1991)
Vigil (1991)
Nobility of Blood (1991)
Jos¿ Luis Vega (b. 1948)
One More (1974)
The Body of Language (1989)
Passion Solo II (1996)
Passion Solo IV (1996)
Luz Ivonne Ochart (b. 1949)
Convalescence (1978)
New York, New York (1980)
Walking Down the Streets Listening to Boleros, Boleros, and Boleros (1981)
Vanessa Droz (b. 1952)
The Sixth Glass (1982)
To Encircle the Fire (1982)
Love?s Body (1996)
Pedro López Adorno (b. 1954)
Study for an Island Love (1996)
Variation on a Recipe (1996)
Capricho with Salsa Rhythm (1996)
Lilliana Ramos Collado (b. 1954)
Clich¿ Prosem (1981)
Condemned Women (1998)
Euclidiana (1998)
Consequences of Thermodynamics (1998)
Book Four: Of Diasporas, Syncretisms, Border Crossings, and Transnationalizations: An AmerRícan Sancocho
Rosario Morales (b. 1930)
Getting Out Alive (1986)
Africa (1986)
My Revolution (1986)
Jaime Carrero (b. 1931)
Jet neorriqueño/Neo-Rican Jetliner (1964)
Conversación II (1964)
Lamento 0 (1964)
Jack Ag¿eros (b. 1934)
Sonnet for 1950 (1991)
Sonnet for the # 6 (1991)
Psalm for Your Image (1991)
Psalm for the Next Millennium (2002)
Miguel Algarín (b. 1941)
Mongo Affair (1978)
High Wine in Beehive, Guyana (1978)
El Jibarito Moderno (1979)
Nuyorican Angel of Records (1997)
Lydia Cort¿s (b. 1942)
You Must Be in the Potatoes, Because You Look So Good (Second Language Acquisitions) (2002)
Bouillabaisse (2002)
Embouchements (2002)
Pedro Pietri (1944?2004)
Puerto Rican Obituary (1972)
Telephone Booth 905½ (1973)
Traffic Misdirector (1983)
Nighttime Sunshine Mind Game (1994)
Louis Reyes Rivera (b. 1945)
no hole in a punctured poem (1977)
the adverb (1996)
january pigeons (19??)
like Toussaint, so Martí (1996)
Miguel Piñero (1946?1988)
A Lower East Side Poem (1975)
This Is Not the Place Where I Was Born (1985)
The Menudo of a Cuchifrito Love Affair (1985)
Julio Marz n (b. 1946)
Che?s Picture in Ramparts (1978)
The Pure Preposition (1986)
The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers (1995)
Arresting Beauty (2003)
Tom, Dick, and Sally (2003)
Alba Ambert (b. 1946)
San Juan Bautista Port, 1852 (2002)
Canticles of Desire (2002)
I Want to Remember (2002)
Felipe Luciano (b. 1947)
Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger (1968)
The Library (1969)
Maya (1988)
Sandra María Esteves (b. 1948)
Autobiography of a Nuyorican (1990)
Who Is Going to Tell Me? (1990)
Black Notes and ?You Do Something to Me? (1990)
Victor Hern ndez Cruz (b. 1949)
Energy (1968)
You Gotta Have Your Tips on Fire (1973)
Three Songs from the 50s (1976)
Atmospheric Phenomenon: The Art of Hurricanes (1997)
Tato Laviera (b. 1951)
palm tree in spanglish figurines (1979)
tito madera smith (1985)
AmeRícan (1988)
Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
The Idea of Islands (1987)
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica (1993)
We Are All Carriers (1995)
Latin Women Pray (1995)
Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)
Child of the Americas (1986)
Class Poem (1986)
Heart?s Desire (1986)
Martín Espada (b. 1957)
Black Train through the Ancient Empire of Chicago (1982)
Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction (1987)
Niggerlips (1990)
The River Will Not Testify (2000)
Naomi Ayala (b. 1964)
Immigrant's Voice (1997)
Abuelo's Garden (1997)
In a World of Few Merengues (1997)
Historical Chronology
Select Bibiliography
Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times
edited by Roberto Marquez
University of Massachusetts Press, 2006 eISBN: 978-1-61376-124-3 Paper: 978-1-55849-562-3
This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of sixty-four poets, as well as many previously inaccessible selections from Puerto Rico's tradition of popular verse forms—coplas, décimas, bombas—produced by anonymous writers. All are presented in English, contextualized and individually introduced by Roberto Márquez, a distinguished translator and literary scholar.
Book I, "Before Columbus and After, 1400–1820," focuses on the foundational origins of Puerto Rican poetry and the clash of competing visions embodied in the rich and heterogeneous corpus of anonymous popular verse forms. Book II, "The Creole Matrix: Notions of Nation, 1821–1950s," concentrates on the period in which a distinctively Puerto Rican consciousness emerged and the island's subsequent experience as a U. S. colony in the decades after the Spanish-Cuban-American War up to formal establishment of Commonwealth status. Books III and IV are devoted, respectively, to the era of insular "Critique, Revolt, and Renewal" in the mid-twentieth century, and to the "New Creoles, New Definitions" that developed in the late twentieth century, including the distinct and parallel growth of Puerto Rican poetry in the mainland United States.
In addition to a general introduction and concise biographical profiles of each poet, Márquez provides a detailed "Chronology" of the history of the island that has shaped the poets and informed their work. The resulting volume is a major contribution to our understanding and appreciation of Puerto Rican literature and the heterogeneous society in which it has been produced.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Roberto Márquez is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Mount Holyoke College.
REVIEWS
"Without a doubt, the most complete and comprehensive anthology of Puerto Rican poetry available in Spanish or English . . . a timely and important addition to the study of Latin American literature in general and Puerto Rican literature in particular."—William Luis, author of Dance between Two Cultures:
Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States
"I cannot emphasize enough what an important book this is, and how admirable and noble Roberto Márquez has been to dedicate himself with such perseverance and intelligence to this imposing task. He has built a forceful cultural bridge just where and when one is needed, and gratitude will surely be due him for generations to come."—Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip Hop:
Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity
"There are few scholars who could have pulled this off with the erudition, wit and sensibility that Roberto Márquez has. . . . Márquez has managed to give us a true anthology of Puerto Rican poetry."—CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
"This potent anthology not only offers a multiplicity of perspectives on Puerto Rican literature and society but deepens our understanding of the commonwealth's history."—Library Journal
"The intent of this book is to provide non-Spanish speaking Anglophones access to the multicultural originality and geographical scope of Puerto Rican poetic traditions. Márquez skillfully achieves this goal. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice
"From the very first pages this anthology takes you by surprise. It is a well-structured and clearly laid-out evolution of Puerto Rican poetry, from three centuries before Spanish colonization right up to the present, and it is full of historical detail and cultural context. The scholarship is astute and insightful, and allows the voices of those who were "there" to speak about the poetry they heard when they first encountered it. This allows for a historical context to emerge with the poetry that gives meaning and substance to a culture that has often been imposed on by other, dominant cultures. . . . This is an outstanding anthology and deserves its place among the best anthologies written on Caribbean and Latin American literature."—Kliatt
"Major themes in history and the subject of poetry don't usually go together in the curriculum, but this anthology shows why they should. . . . Márquez's deft translations, many of poems previously unavailable in English, leave every lyric voice clear and unburdened."—Multicultural Review
"These are not just excellent translations; surely they are some of the best translations available for many of these poems, if not the only ones. . . . This collection is a treasure trove that has the potential to bring an underappreciated genre successfully to a new audeicne, and a priceless resource for anyone exploring Puerto Rican poetry, especially those who previously would have been hindered by language or lack of available resources."—Caribbean Review of Books
"In Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times, editor Roberto Marquez provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto-Rican poetry that dates back to the era of conquest and colonization to contemporary poets on both the mainland and the islands....Although no one anthology can truly capture the vast works of contemporary Puerto Rican writers, this collection is a first step in the right direction...[by] providing an in-depth understanding and appreciation of the genesis and exploration of Puerto-Rican literature."—Phati'tude Literary Magazine
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Book One: Before Columbus and After, 1400?1820
Aboriginal Beginnings: The Areyto
Gonzalo Fern ndez de Oviedo y Vald¿s (1478?1557)
. . . [O]f the areytos and dances with singing, and their form of preserving the memory of past events which they wish recalled by their descendents and their people (1535)
The Colonial Crucible, 1508?1820
Conquistadors, Tropical Spaniards, Mimic Men, Proto-Creoles
Juan de Castellanos (1522?1607)
Elegy the Sixth (1589)
Fray Dami n López de Haro (1581?1648)
Puerto Rico (1644)
Anonymous
[Riposte] (1644)
Francisco de Ayerra Santa María (1630?1708)
Sonnet upon Her Death to Sor Juana In¿s de la Cruz (1691)
Juan Rodríguez Calderón (1775?1839+)
To the Blessed and Beautiful Island of San Juan de Puerto Rico: A Canto (1816)
Miguel Cabrera (Dates Unknown)
The Jíbaro?s Verses (1820)
Vox Populi
Coplas I
D¿cimas I
Bombas
Songs
Coplas II
D¿cimas II
Book Two: The Creole Matrix: Notions of Nation, 1821?1950s
Emergence to Intervention, 1821?1898
María Bibiana Benítez (1783?1875)
The Nymph of Puerto Rico to Justice (1832)
Alejandrina Benítez (1819?1879)
To My Lamp (1846)
The Submarine Cable in Puerto Rico (1870)
Santiago Vidarte (1827?1848)
Insomnia (1846)
Manuel A. Alonso (1822?1889)
The Puerto Rican (1849)
A Jíbaro Wedding (1849)
Jos¿ Gualberto Padilla (1829?1896)
To a Palacio, a Caribe: Reply to Manuel del Palacio (1868)
Paraphrasis of the Sonnet ?Puerto Rico? by Manuel del Palacio
(1869)
Lola Rodríguez de Tió (1843?1924)
Anthem (1868)
Couplets (1876)
To My Absent Husband (1878)
Self-portrait (1893)
Mist (1893+)
Jos¿ Gautier Benítez (1851?1880)
Puerto Rico (1879)
To My Friends (1880)
Francisco Gonzalo ("Pachín") Marín (1863?1897)
Hope (1898)
The Rag (1898)
Luis Muñoz Rivera (1859?1916)
Nulla Est Redemptio (1889)
XXXIV (1891)
To Any Compatriot (1902)
To Her (1902)
Tradition, Trauma, and Transition
Parnassians, Modernistas, Hispanophiles, Jibaristas
Jos¿ de Jesús Domínguez (1843?1898)
The White Hourie (1886)
Echoes of an Era (1889?)
Trinidad Padilla de Sanz (1864?1958)
The Bath (1926)
Tropical Landscape (1943)
Jos¿ de Diego (1866?1918)
To Spain (1916)
Hallelujahs (1916)
The Last String (1916)
Virgilio D vila (1869?1943)
Creole Venus (1912)
Nostalgia (1916)
The Town (1917)
Luis Llor¿ns Torres (1878?1944)
Song of the Antilles (1913)
Distant Song (1926)
Creole Life (1935)
Collores (1940)
Feminists, Mystics, Negristas, Vanguardistas, and Nationalists
Clara Lair (1895?1973)
New York Nocturns (1928)
Dark Adonis (1937)
Frivolity (1937)
Credo (1950)
Evaristo Ribera Chevremont (1896?1976)
San Juan (1938)
The Symphony of the Hammers (1943)
Plenitude (1943)
My Butterfly of an Antillean Isle (1964)
Luis Pal¿s Matos (1898?1959)
Festive Song to Be Wept (1929)
Prelude in Puerto Rican (1937)
Mulatta Antilles (1937)
The Call (1953)
Jos¿ Isaac de Diego Padró (1899?1974)
Semela and the Satyr (1921)
Epistle to the Pelican in the Park (1957)
Fernando Fortunato Vizcarrondo (1901?1977)
En Yo Gramma, Where She At?
Clemente Soto V¿lez (1905?1993)
Solitude (1937)
The Achieved Emotion (1954)
#18 (1979)
Juan Antonio Corretjer (1908?1985)
Jail Cell (1949)
In Life It?s Always a Going (1957)
The Convoy (1967)
Puerto Rican on the Moon (1980)
Carmen María Colón Pellot (b. 1911)
Motifs of Mulatta Envy (1938)
Song to the Mulatto Race (Making of the Verse) (1938)
The Land Is a Mulatta (1938)
Julia de Burgos (1914?1953)
To Julia de Burgos (1938)
My, Oh My, Oh My of the Nappy-Haired Negress (1938)
Poem for My Death (1954)
Francisco Matos Paoli (1915?2000)
Antisonnet to the Noble Sea (1944)
Biographical Summary (1978)
The Puerto Ricans (1985)
Violeta López Suria (b. 1926)
A Few Stars in My Room (1957)
Litany II with Embedded Sonnet (1961)
Lovingly (1961)
Book Three: Critique, Revolt, and Renewal
Hugo Margenat (1933?1957)
Landscape (1953)
Active Poetics (1955)
God Is Good (1956)
Links (1956)
Iris M. Zavala (b. 1936)
Words Words (1971)
XXI (1973)
The Pelagic Glance (1982)
Rosario Ferr¿ (b. 1938)
Opprobrium (1982)
The Shadow of Guilt (1995)
Language Duel (2001)
The Bones of Conquerors (2002)
Olga Nolla (1938?2001)
A Sentimental Education (1976)
Ariadne, Postmodern, Constructs a Labyrinth (1994)
I Regret Having to Contradict My Elders (1994)
A Poet Doesn?t Know for Certain (1994)
Marcos Rodríguez Frese (b. 1941)
Superavit (1969)
Hymn (1969)
Vital Poetics (1971)
Andr¿s Castro Ríos (b. 1942)
Celebrating Vallejo (19??)
The Crime Was in Grenada (1986)
The Night and Poetry Have Something to Say (1996)
Hjalmar Flax (b. 1942)
Synthesis (1978)
The Lord?s Prayer (1982)
Determinations (1982)
Poetic Injustice (1985)
In Articulo Mortis (2003)
Vicente Rodríguez Nietzsche (b. 1942)
Love Always Begins
Love Spumes Us Up in Its Fluid Cascade
Jorge María Ruscalleda Bercedóniz (b. 1944)
Let Not the Poets Say (1971)
Homicide (1997)
My Mother Is a Seamstress (1997)
Juan de Matta García (b. 1947)
Satiric D¿cima (1990)
Manuel Ramos Otero (1948?1990)
Much as she would not Penelope abides . . . (1985)
I Left Behind the Streets of My Country (1991)
Vigil (1991)
Nobility of Blood (1991)
Jos¿ Luis Vega (b. 1948)
One More (1974)
The Body of Language (1989)
Passion Solo II (1996)
Passion Solo IV (1996)
Luz Ivonne Ochart (b. 1949)
Convalescence (1978)
New York, New York (1980)
Walking Down the Streets Listening to Boleros, Boleros, and Boleros (1981)
Vanessa Droz (b. 1952)
The Sixth Glass (1982)
To Encircle the Fire (1982)
Love?s Body (1996)
Pedro López Adorno (b. 1954)
Study for an Island Love (1996)
Variation on a Recipe (1996)
Capricho with Salsa Rhythm (1996)
Lilliana Ramos Collado (b. 1954)
Clich¿ Prosem (1981)
Condemned Women (1998)
Euclidiana (1998)
Consequences of Thermodynamics (1998)
Book Four: Of Diasporas, Syncretisms, Border Crossings, and Transnationalizations: An AmerRícan Sancocho
Rosario Morales (b. 1930)
Getting Out Alive (1986)
Africa (1986)
My Revolution (1986)
Jaime Carrero (b. 1931)
Jet neorriqueño/Neo-Rican Jetliner (1964)
Conversación II (1964)
Lamento 0 (1964)
Jack Ag¿eros (b. 1934)
Sonnet for 1950 (1991)
Sonnet for the # 6 (1991)
Psalm for Your Image (1991)
Psalm for the Next Millennium (2002)
Miguel Algarín (b. 1941)
Mongo Affair (1978)
High Wine in Beehive, Guyana (1978)
El Jibarito Moderno (1979)
Nuyorican Angel of Records (1997)
Lydia Cort¿s (b. 1942)
You Must Be in the Potatoes, Because You Look So Good (Second Language Acquisitions) (2002)
Bouillabaisse (2002)
Embouchements (2002)
Pedro Pietri (1944?2004)
Puerto Rican Obituary (1972)
Telephone Booth 905½ (1973)
Traffic Misdirector (1983)
Nighttime Sunshine Mind Game (1994)
Louis Reyes Rivera (b. 1945)
no hole in a punctured poem (1977)
the adverb (1996)
january pigeons (19??)
like Toussaint, so Martí (1996)
Miguel Piñero (1946?1988)
A Lower East Side Poem (1975)
This Is Not the Place Where I Was Born (1985)
The Menudo of a Cuchifrito Love Affair (1985)
Julio Marz n (b. 1946)
Che?s Picture in Ramparts (1978)
The Pure Preposition (1986)
The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers (1995)
Arresting Beauty (2003)
Tom, Dick, and Sally (2003)
Alba Ambert (b. 1946)
San Juan Bautista Port, 1852 (2002)
Canticles of Desire (2002)
I Want to Remember (2002)
Felipe Luciano (b. 1947)
Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger (1968)
The Library (1969)
Maya (1988)
Sandra María Esteves (b. 1948)
Autobiography of a Nuyorican (1990)
Who Is Going to Tell Me? (1990)
Black Notes and ?You Do Something to Me? (1990)
Victor Hern ndez Cruz (b. 1949)
Energy (1968)
You Gotta Have Your Tips on Fire (1973)
Three Songs from the 50s (1976)
Atmospheric Phenomenon: The Art of Hurricanes (1997)
Tato Laviera (b. 1951)
palm tree in spanglish figurines (1979)
tito madera smith (1985)
AmeRícan (1988)
Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)
The Idea of Islands (1987)
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica (1993)
We Are All Carriers (1995)
Latin Women Pray (1995)
Aurora Levins Morales (b. 1954)
Child of the Americas (1986)
Class Poem (1986)
Heart?s Desire (1986)
Martín Espada (b. 1957)
Black Train through the Ancient Empire of Chicago (1982)
Trumpets from the Islands of Their Eviction (1987)
Niggerlips (1990)
The River Will Not Testify (2000)
Naomi Ayala (b. 1964)
Immigrant's Voice (1997)
Abuelo's Garden (1997)
In a World of Few Merengues (1997)
Historical Chronology
Select Bibiliography
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