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Cruz, Victor Hernández, 1949- author.

Beneath the Spanish / Victor Hernández Cruz.

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017.

©2017

xii, 160 pages ; 23 cm

Beneath the Spanish is history, the clash and melt of cultures, the conquest of the New World, colonialism, bilingualism, fragmentation, and cubism. Poems built of tobacco, sugar, café; Spanish, Arabic, English; José Martí, Federico García Lorca, and William Carlos Williams. A history and exploration of Hernández Cruz's Caribbean roots as well as a documentation of and counterpoint to the origin of the European cultural intrusion into the New World, Beneath the Spanish deconstructs and reconstructs a wounded history, offering a prayer for communication between distances, oceans, music, dance, and mountains, revealing the past in the present moment we live. -- publisher.

American poetry -- Puerto Rican authors.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Poetry.

Poems. Selections

Tumbadora -- Primer Encuentro entre Dos Mundos -- Cuban Taino Cacique Meets Spaniard and the Translator -- Santo Domingo/Puerto Rico: New Dance Commences -- Ay Bandito, Qué Vaina -- Atlantis/Mu -- Bajo Mundo -- Hispano Caribbean/America Latin -- Childhood in the Latin Caribbean -- San Agustin/Florida -- More Nuevo Mundo -- What Is the Lower East Side -- Lower East Side Red Brick Blues -- New Orleans y Todo Ese Jazz -- Motion in the Silence -- Egypt -- Sopdet -- Tobacco-Guayaba y Café -- Son las Tres del Café -- Chocolate -- Choco-Arte -- San Juan Bautista -- Puerto Rico -- Borges y Nabokov -- Lectura -- Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca -- Cante Jondo -- Don Quijote -- The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha -- Reading Japanese in Morocco -- Chuchuki -- Chess -- Ajedrez -- Spanish Language -- Latin Boogaloo -- Sueiios -- Who/What/Where -- The Costumes of Peasant Folk -- Future Mountain -- Latin American Dance -- La Pachanga.

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