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Puerto Rican poetry: a selection from aboriginal to contemporary times
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Publication Date
c2007
Language
English
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The areyto / Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes
Elegy the sixth / Juan de Castellanos
Puerto Rica / Fray Damian Lopez de Haro
Riposte / Anonymous
Sonnet upon her death to sor Juana Ines de la Cruz / Francisco de Ayerre Santa Maria
To the blessed and beautiful island of San Juan de Puerto Rico: a canto / Juan Rodriguez Calderon
The jibaro's verses / Miguel Cabrera
The nymph of Puerto Rico to justice / Maria Bibiana Benitez
To my lamp / Alejandra Benitez
The submarine cable in Puerto Rico / Alejandra Benitez
Insomnia / Santiago Vidarte
The Puerto Rican / Manuel A. Alonso
A Jibaro wedding / Manuel A. Alonso
To a Palacio, a Caribe: reply to Manuel del Palacio / Jose Gualberto Padilla
Paraphrasis of the sonnet "Puerto Rico" by Manuel del Palacio / Jose Gualberto Padilla
Anthem / Lola Rodrigues de Tio
Couplets / Lola Rodrigues de Tio
To my absent husband / Lola Rodrigues de Tio
Self-portrait / Lola Rodrigues de Tio
Mist / Lola Rodrigues de Tio
Puerto Rico / Jose Gautier Benitez
To my friends / Jose Gautier Benitez
Hope / Francisco Gonzalo
The rag / Francisco Gonzalo
Nulla est redemptio / Luis Munoz Rivera
XXXIV / Luis Munoz Rivera
To any compatriot / Luis Munoz Rivera
To her / Luis Munoz Rivera
The white houries / Jose de Jesus Dominguez
Echoes of an era / Jose de Jesus Dominguez
The bath / Trinidad Padilla de Sanz
Tropical landscape / Trinidad Padilla de Sanz
To Spain / Jose de Diego
Hallelujahs / Jose de Diego
The last string / Jose de Diego
Creole Venus / Virgilio Davila
Nostalgia / Virgilio Davila
The town / Virgilio Davila
Song of the Antilles / Luis Llorens Torres
Distant song / Luis Llorens Torres
Creole life / Luis Llorens Torres
Collores / Luis Llorens Torres
New York nocturnes / Clara Lair
Dark adonis / Clara Lair
Frivolity / Clara Lair
Credo / Clara Lair
San Juan / Evaristo Ribera Chevremont
The symphony of the hammers / Evaristo Ribera Chevremont
Plentitude / Evaristo Ribera Chevremont
My butterfly of an antillean isle / Evaristo Ribera Chevremont
Festival song to be wept / Luis Pales Matos
Prelude in Puerto Rico / Luis Pales Matos
Mulatta Antilles / Luis Pales Matos
The call / Luis Pales Matos
Semela and the satyr / Jose Isaac de Diego Padro
Epistle to the pelican in the park / Jose Isaac de Diego
En yo granma, where she at? / Fernando Fortunato Vizcarrondo
Solitude / Clemente Soto Velez
The achieved emotion / Clemente Soto Velez
#18 / Clemente Soto Velez
Jail cell / Juan Antonio Corretjer
In life it's always a going / Clemente Soto Velez
The convoy / Juan Antonio Corretjer
Pueerto Rican on the moon / Juan Antonio Corretjer
Motifs of Mulatta envy / Carmen Maria Colon Pellot
Song to the Mullato race (making of the verse) / Carmen Maria Colon Pellot
The land is a Mullatta / Carmen Maria Colon Pellot
To Julia de Burgos / Julia de Burgos
My, oh my, oh my of the nappy-haired Negress / Julia de Burgos
Poem for my death / Julia de Burgos
Antisonnet to the Noble Sea / Francisco Matos Paoli
Biographical summary / Francisco Matos Paoli
The Puerto Ricans / Francisco Matos Paoli
A few stars in my room / Violeta Lopez Suria
Litany II with embedded sonnet / Violeta Lopez Suria
Lovingly / Violeta Lopez Suria.
Landscape / Hugo Margenat
Active poetics / Hugo Margenat
God is good / Hugo Margenat
Links / Hugo Margenat
Words words / Iris M. Zavala
XXI / Iris M. Zavala
The pelagic glance / Iris M. Zavala
Opprobrium / Rosario Ferre
The shadow of guilt / Rosario Ferre
The language duel / Rosario Ferre
The bone of conquerors / Rosario Ferre
A sentimental education / Olga Nolla
Ariadne, postmodern, constructs a labyrinth / Olga Nolla
I regret having to contradict my elders / Olga Nolla
A poet doesn't know for certain / Olga Nolla
Supervit / Marcos Rodriguez Frese
Hymn / Marcos Rodriguez Frese
Vital poetics / Marcos Rodriguez Frese
Celebrating vallejo / Andres Castro Rios
The crime was in Grenada / Andres Castro Rios
The night and poetry have something to say / Andres Castro Rios
Synthesis / Hjalmar Flax
The lord's prayer / Hjalmar Flax
Determinations / Hjalmar Flax
Poetic injustice / Hjalmar Flax
In articulo mortis / Hjalmar Flax
Love always begins / Vincente Rodriguez Nietzsche
Love spumes us up in its fluid cascade / Vincente Rodriguez Nietzsche
Let not the poets say / Jorge Maria Ruscalleda Bercedoniz
Homicide / Jorge Maria Ruscalleda Bercedoniz
My mother is a seamstress / Jorge Maria Ruscalleda Bercedoniz
Satiric Decima / Juan de Matta Garcia
Much as she would not Penelope abides.../ Manuel Ramos Otero
I left behind the streets of my country / Manuel Ramos Otero
Vigil / Manuel Ramos Otero
Nobility of blood / Manuel Ramos Otero
One more / Jose Luis Vega
The body of language / Jose Luis Vega
Passion solo II / Jose Luis Vega
Passion solo IV / Jose Luis Vega
Convalescence / Luz Ivonne Ochart
New York, New York / Luz Ivonne Ochart
Walking down the streets listening to boleros, boleros and boleros / Luz Ivonne Ochart
The sixth glass / Vanessa Droz
To encircle the fire / Vanessa Droz
Love's body / Vanessa Droz
Study for an island love / Pedro Lopez Adorno
Variation on a recipe / Pedro Lopez Adorno
Capricho with salsa rhythm / Pedro Lopez Adorno
Cliche prosem / Lilliana Ramos Collado
Condemned women / Lilliana Ramos Collado
Euclidiana / Lilliana Ramos Collado
Consequences of thermodynamics / Lilliana Ramos Collado.
Getting out alive / Rosario Morales
Africa / Rosario Morales
My revolution / Rosario Morales
Jet neorriqueno/Neo-Rican jetliner / Jaime Carrero
Conversacion II / Jaime Carrero
Lamento O / Jaime Carrero
Sonnet for 1950 / Jack Agueros
Sonnet for the #6 / Jack Agueros
Psalm for your image / Jack Agueros
Psalm for the next millennium / Jack Agueros
Mongo affair / Miguel Algarin
High wine in Beehive, Guyana / Miguel Algarin
El Jibarito moderno/ Miguel Algarin
Nuyorican angel of records / Miguel Algarin
You must be in the potatoes, because you look so good / Lydia Cortes
Bouillabaisse / Lydia Cortes
Embouchements / Lydia Cortes
Puerto Rican obituary / Pedro Pietri
Telephone booth / Pedro Pietri
Traffic misdirector / Pedro Pietri
Nighttime sunshine mind game / Pedro Pietri
no hole in a punctured poem / Louis Reyes Rivera
the adverb / Louis Reyes Rivera
january pigeons / Louis Reyes Rivera
like Toussaint, so Marti / Louis Reyes Rivera
A lower east side poem / Miguel Pinero
This is not the place where I was born / Miguel Pinero
The menudo of a cuchifrito love affair / Miguel Pinero
Che's picture in Ramparts / Julio Marzan
The pure preposition / Julio Marzan
The translator at the reception for Latin American writers / Julio Marzan
Arresting beauty / Julio Marzan
Tom , Dick, and Sally / Julio Marzan
San Juan bautista port
Alba Ambert
Canticles of desire / Alba Ambert
I want to remember / Alba Ambert
Jibaro, my pretty nigger / Felipe Luciano
The library / Felipe Luciano
Maya / Felipe Luciano
Autobiography of a Nuyorican / Sandra Maria Esteves
Who is going to tell me? / Sandra Maria Esteves
Black notes and "You do something to me" / Sandra Maria Esteves
Energy / Victor Hernandez Cruz
You gotta have your tips on fire / Victor Hernandez Cruz
Three songs from the 50s / Victor Hernandez Cruz
Atmospheric phenomenon: the art of hurricanes / Victor Hernandez Cruz
palm tree in spanglish figurines / Tato Laviera
tito madera smith / Tato Laviera
AmeRican / Tato Laviera
The idea of islands / Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Latin deli: an ars poetica / Judith Ortiz Cofer
We are all carriers / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Latin women pray / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Child of the Americas / Aurora Levins Morales
Class poem / Aurora Levins Morales
Heart's desire / Aurora Levins Morales
Black train through the ancient empire of Chicago / Martin Espada
Trumpets from the islands of their Eviction / Martin Espada
Niggerlips / Martin Espada
The river will not testify / Martin Espada
Immigrant's voices / Naomi Ayala
Abuelo's garden / Naomi Ayala
In a world of few merengues / Naomi Ayala.
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