Beneath the Spanish

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Praise for Victor Hernndez Cruz:'Bilingual since childhood, Mr. Cruz writes poems about his native Puerto Rico and elsewhere which often speak to us with a forked tongue, sometimes in a highly literate Spanglish. . . . He's a funny, hard-edged poet, declining always into mother wit and pathos.' The New York Times Book Review'A fluent sensualist and rhythmic stylist.' The Washington Post'Like a salsa band leader coaxing and challenging dancers to more and more complex steps, Cruz dares readers with dizzying polyrhythms, polymetric stanzas, backstepping word structures and a sense of improvisation.' Publishers WeeklyBeneath the Spanish tracks the way that languages intersect and inform each other, and how language and music shapes experience. Moving across landscapes from Puerto Rico to Manhattan to Morocco, these poems are one man's history and a song that begs to be performed.From 'Ay Bendito, Que Vaina':Cuneiform tablet inside,The maracas pencil oralityof remembered places,the night stars,the hammock, yucayequeslike beehives, a river crabcame to my feet to talkwith its mouth legs,trembling like castanets.Victor Hernndez Cruz is the author of several collections of poetry including, most recently, The Mountain in the Sea and In the Shadow of Al-Andalus. Featured in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series, Cruz's collection, Maraca, was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall and Griffin Poetry Prizes. He divides his time between Morocco and his native Puerto Rico.

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  • SprogEngelsk
  • Udgivelsesdato10-10-2017
  • ISBN139781566895057
  • Forlag Coffee House Press
  • FormatePub

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