Download or read book Poems from a Puerto Rican Heart written by Ellie Cabrera and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems from a Puerto Rican Heart is the debut book for Puerto Rican poet Ellie Cabrera. She describes it as a collection of thoughts and poems that she gathered during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The collection includes poems that she wrote a few years ago and those that she wrote in the past eight months. The poems describe her return to Puerto Rico, as well as her journey to become who she is today.

Download or read book A Collection of Poetry about Reflections on Being Puerto Rican written by Elise Sharron and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puerto Rico is a beautiful island paradise that visitors often take for granted. It is located right on the ocean so that its shores are home to some of the most amazing beaches but that is only what people who don't live there see. This collection is from the heart of a native. Someone who knows Puerto Rico very well and calls it home. A place where the skin of its native sons and daughters as been kissed by the sun and the view of life from their perspective is calm and enchanting. Always recognizing the importance of family, the balance of having everything you need and not realizing that you don't have as much as others because it doesn't matter and the most important part of home- Mama's cooking. The poem For the Love of Puerto Rico shares with us everything there is to love about the island from the views to the food and the all-around feeling of home. From sun rise to sunset the life of turning in constant circles, what it means to live life there. Which is balanced with I Hate Maria, a poem that tells of the destruction that hurricane Maria left on the island at the point of impact and still many years after.

Download or read book Poetry Y Poes a written by Victor Edgar Rivera and published by VER: Writer/Poet/Art Dealer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Puerto Rican Poetry written by Robert Márquez and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry in English, this text includes the work of 64 poets, as well as selections from Puerto Rico's tradition of popular verse forms - coplas, decimas, bombas - produced by anonymous writers.

Download or read book Floaters Poems written by Martín Espada and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief and love. Martín Espada is a poet who "stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness," says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the essential voices in American poetry. Floaters takes its title from a term used by certain Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem responds to the viral photograph of Óscar and Valeria, a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the Río Grande, and allegations posted in the "I’m 10-15" Border Patrol Facebook group that the photo was faked. Espada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love—even in the voice of a cantankerous Galápagos tortoise. The collection ranges from historical epic to achingly personal lyrics about growing up, the baseball that drops from the sky and smacks Espada in the eye as he contemplates a girl’s gently racist question. Whether celebrating the visionaries—the fallen dreamers, rebels and poets—or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane María, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.

Download or read book Puerto Rico written by Alejandro Ventura and published by Brooklyn Arts Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "Alejandro Ventura's poems are full of intriguing combinations and surprising turns: a world of mangu-making, the paintings of Barnett Newman, baseball, Keats, the smell of grandmothers in an open pharmacy. A magician's hat of endless possibilities. The poems display a poet of capacious imagination, poised and skilled in his use of language, with an inviting playfulness, and an earned tenderness that touches the heart. It's magical realism meets Ashbery, but the result is his very own original voice. Alejandro Ventura takes us to an island that becomes our own as we read the poems in PUERTO RICO." Julia Alvarez "An impressive debut. Revealing it's author's keen, adroit sense of craft, delicacy of touch and tone, admirable candor, metaphorical inventiveness, and striking lyrical imagination, Alejandro Ventura's PUERTO RICO adds new nuance and inflection to the already rich harmonies and variously textured chorus of Puerto Rican and Diaspora Latino poets. Its vigorous blend of cerebral cool, sophisticated polish, and 'no more cynicism than was necessary' introduces readers to an arresting realm, 'a dream country...bound to the horizon.'" Roberto Marquez"

Download or read book Bendici n written by Tato Laviera and published by Arte Público Press. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I think in Spanish / I write in English / I want to go back to Puerto Rico / but I wonder if my kink could live / in ponce, mayagúez and Carolina.” Born in Puerto Rico but raised in New York City, Tato Laviera’s poetry reflects his bilingual, bicultural Nuyorican existence while celebrating the universality of the human condition and his European, indigenous and African roots. Tato Laviera explores identity, community, urban life, oppression and much more in these multi-layered pieces that spanned his too-short life. Many deal with themes specific to the immigrant experience, such as the sense of alienation many feel when they are not accepted in their native or adopted land. In “nuyorican,” he writes about returning to his native island, only to be looked down upon for his way of speaking: “ahora regreso, con un corazón boricua, y tú / me desprecias, me miras mal, me atacas mi hablar.” Music and dance, an integral part of Puerto Rican life, permeate Laviera’s verse and pay homage to the Caribbean’s African roots. “i hear merengue in French Haiti / and in Dominican blood, / and the guaracha in yoruba, / and the mambo sounds inside the plena.” Including all of his previously published poems and some that have never been published, these are bold expressions of hybridity in which people of mixed races speak a combination of languages. He skillfully weaves English and Spanish, and frequently writes in Spanglish. The importance of language and its impact on his identity is evident in poems entitled “Español,” “Bilingüe” and “Spanglish.” Known for his lively, energetic poetry readings, Bendición represents an internationally recognized poet’s life work and will serve to keep Tato Laviera’s words and the issues he wrote about alive long after his death.

Download or read book x ex exis written by Raquel Salas Rivera and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the early days of the rise of world-wide fascism and the poet’s gender transition, x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación/poems for the nation accepts the invitation to push poetic and gender imaginaries beyond the bounds set by nation. From teen dysphoria, to the incarceration of anticolonial activists Oscar López and Nina Droz Franco, to the entanglement of church and state, these poems acknowledge the violence of imposed binaries. For Salas Rivera, the x marks Puerto Rican transness in a world that seeks trans death, denial, and erasure. Instead of justifying his existence, he takes up the flag of illegibility and writes an apocalyptic book that screams into an uncertain future, armed with nothing to lose. In today's post-disaster Puerto Rico and a world shaped by the recurring waves of an ecological apocalypse, Salas Rivera’s words feel visionary, mapping a decolonizing territory, a body, and identity of both soil and heart.

Download or read book Poems from the Heart written by Esteban Rodriguez and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems from the Heart: Life’s Trials and Triumphs By: Esteban Rodriguez Esteban Rodriguez started writing poetry in 2015 as a way to get in touch with his feelings and emotions. He writes poems about different aspects of his life, including happiness, love, failure, depression, overcoming obstacles, and many more. He decided in 2021 to compile his works into a book as a way to inspire others to overcome their issues and find some meaning in life.

Download or read book Sonnets from the Puerto Rican written by Jack Agüeros and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Latin American Studies. Jack Agueros is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer born in East Harlem who has remained closely involved with New York's Puerto Rican community. Agueros' varied writing career has reached from TV's Sesame Street to experimental Off-Off Broadway drama. His translations have been performed at the New York Public Theater and his poems and stories have appeared in Nuestro, Revista Chicana-Riquena, Hanging Loose, The Portable Lower East Side, and many other publications. His first collection of poetry, CORRESPONDING BETWEEN THE STONEHAULERS, was published by Hanging Loose in 1991 followed by his first collection of short fiction, DOMINOES & OTHER STORIES FROM THE PUERTO RICAN published by Curbstone Press.

Download or read book Borinquen an Anthology of Puerto Rican Literature written by María Teresa Babín and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems from the Heart of a Complicated Mind written by Julio Toro and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a native of Puerto Rico and a writer of poetry and self-help literature. Writing is my love and, quite often, my savior from negative aspects in life. I write to understand, as it helps me put things in perspective. In this compilation, I have chosen to express the beauty of poetry and the facets of writing that can be attained by a poetic mind through poetic rendering. These are diverse pieces of love, happiness, belief, honesty and grief, yet it does not stop them from simply applying to us all, for we are all equal under the eyes of God. Our hardships may work in different ways, but our end results in dealing with them work out in a similar fashion. Recently, Iave suffered a huge loss in my life; my son passed and a lot of the poetry is a reflection of that. I have put down the pains and suffering experienced. It has been a day-to-day dealing and Iave held on with the little strength I have left. Thatas not to say that itas become easier, but rather that Iave learned how to cope. For, as there has to be balance in life and within ourselves, we learn to adapt what we have learned to an even higher level of learning. However, for therapy, I have put down other poems as well that offset pain by displaying the beauty life can produce and the drops of happiness that help with a situation as difficult as the loss of a loved one. Itas a hard pill to swallow but as with medicine that does not go down easy, it helps us get better, facing what we have to with an open mind, love and resolve. I offer this piece to you and hope it offers anyone going through this some resolve.

Download or read book Poems from the Heart written by Peter Benjamin LeBuhn and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems from the Heart presents the second edition of Peter LeBuhns first collection of poetry, written from his own real life experiences and feelings. It conveys the romance and spirituality that he has discovered in life; it is his way of sharing himself and his dreams with the world. LeBuhn has been writing poetry since 1983 and has immortalized several important events through his poetry, including the Save the Tiger Campaign in Nepal for Archana Shresta. Take an inspirational journey through verse in this deeply emotional collection. Peters words live; as I read them I feel the meaning of the poem or song come alive. He really knows how to capture the here and now. Carol Lee, artist and head of the North Carolina Library Peters poetry is truly romantic; I can see myself within the words. Suzan Gumush, poet, Kent, United Kingdom Peters words are very inspiringbeautiful choice of words, beautiful imagery; many of the poems are like sagas. A paintbrush of words. Keiah Delu, author "Peter's use of words is truly touching,great word use, passionate ,emotional, the words come to life." Claire Jones, poet I have enjoyed reading passages from your book many nights. You did write as though it is happening now. That was so clever of you! I have read some to friends and they too conquer that you are very gifted and a romantic. Alberta Steans, Nutrition Counselor

Download or read book A Pan American Life written by Muna Lee and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the twentieth century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is the first biography of her remarkable life and a collection of her diverse writings, which embody her vision of Pan America, an old concept that remains new and meaningful today.

Download or read book The Buried Sea written by Rane Arroyo and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rane Arroyo's poetry we hear echoes of Whitman, Lorca, Neruda. But more important, we hear Arroyo's own song of self rendered with a lyricism that belies its astonishing and redolent honesty. The Buried Sea: New and Selected Poems is a powerful addition to the American literary landscape. --Connie May Fowler.

Download or read book The Last Puerto Rican Indian written by Bobby González and published by Galeria Cemi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Carlos Mario Fraticelli Puerto Rican Poetry English Edition written by Benjamin Fraticelli and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHY THIS BOOK? This is the second book published with the poetry written by my grandfather, Carlos Mario Fraticelli. The first book of poems is his original work in Spanish titled La Poesía Puertorriqueña de Carlos Mario Fraticelli. This book is titled Carlos Mario Fraticelli, PUERTO RICAN POETRY - DÉCIMAS DESDE HAWAII with English Translations. This edition shows a parallel translation from Spanish to English on each page. Carlos Fraticelli used the poetic form known as decima, popular in Puerto Rico. It is a 10-liner with 8 syllables per line and no punctuation. In Puerto Rico and other parts of Latin America, the decima is often sung and improvised. We added minimal punctuation to the English translations for ease of understanding. The poetry is organized in seven sections and framed by background information in the prologue and notes from the poet in the epilogue. This book of translations was conceived for readers with limited or no Spanish, or readers with limited or no English. We hope it provides specific evidence of the talent, skill, perspective, and intelligence of Carlos Fraticelli as a poet. Written almost a hundred years ago, his poems are reflections on several generic themes, including nature, love, identity, ethnic heritage, lament and exile. It is my fervent hope that readers, especially descendants of Carlos Fraticelli, will be sensitized to the positive impact that these poems can have on the development of empathy and a sense of kinship with the poet and other Puerto Rican emigrants to Hawaii in the beginning of the 20th century. With appreciation, Benjamin Fraticelli