Beneath the Spanish Contributor(s): Hernandez Cruz, Victor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566894891 ISBN-13: 9781566894890 Publisher: Coffee House Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2017000412 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 176 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Praise for Victor Hern ndez 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 Weekly Beneath 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, Victor Hern ndez 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. |