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Aloud

Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

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A multicultural selection of contemporary poems by Puerto Rican and other poets who meet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City.

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Henry Holt and Co.
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English
Pages
514

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Table of Contents

Darryl Strawberry Asleep in a Field of Dreams ; At Ease / Paul Beatty
An Open Letter to Myself ; Front Page or Bust ; "There Must Be a Conspiracy" / Nicole Breedlove
Fantasy Lover #5; Housecleaning / Dana Bryant
Check One ; Game Boy / Regie Cabico
Lonely Night in New York ; At the Aids Clinic ; U.N. Resolution / Xavier Cavazos
The Romanticization / Samantha Coerbell
Blues Tomorrow ; Wait / Malkia Amala Cyril
Rock Me, Goong Hay! ; Twas the Night Before Chinese New Year's / Alvin Eng
The Stupid Jerk I'm Obsessed With ; Sex Goddess of the Western Hemisphere / Maggie Estep
Please Don't Take My Air Jordans ; Thomas the Burnt English Muffin ; Just Another Misunderstood Brother / Reg E. Gains
No, Fuck Me ; You Kill My Love For Your Love For Me Kills Me / Eliza Galaher
Sendin' Out a P.B. / Christian Haye
His Victim ; Peephole / Indigo
I Heard the Bird ; Mambo in "T" Major / Tito Lespier
New Yok City Rundown (European on Me) / Tony Medina
Rebirth of New Rican ; The Last Hispanic / Ed Morales
Project Princess ; Morenita ; The Spot / Tracie Morris.
Poem II for Annie Sexton ; She's Come Undone ; Mother Love / Dael Orlandersmith
Nigger-Reecan Blues ; Reflections on the Metro North, Winter 1990 / Willie Perdomo
Twins ; Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down / Kevin Powell
La Negra ; Celibacy / Kathy Price
Geneva Cottrell, Waiting for the Dog to Die ; Save the Animals / Carl Hancock Rux
I Finally Managed to Speak to Her ; Deformed Finger ; One Thing Leads to Another ; Sons / Hal Sirowitz
"The Smells of Two Over" ; June 15, 1990 / Paul Skiff
We All Need ; Work ; Cause and Effect / Peter Spiro
The Emperor's Second Wife ; Elegy ; Address / Adrienna Su
Dig on the Decade ; I.E. Seducer ; Mission-Fuckin'-Impossible / Edwin Torres
The Most Beautiful Word in the American Language ; 7:00 and the Tulips Are Red ; The Bakery Has No Bakers / Mike Tyler
Roma Roja Raja Tabla ; Voraz Leon ; Foolish Rituals / Alurista
Dust-Bowl Memory ; Bells ; Choices ; Black Mesa / Jimmy Baca
1-800-Hot-Ribs ; Mr. X ; Deathwatch Beetle / Catherine Bowman
Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question ; Alphabet City Serenade ; Pena's Son / Diane Burns.
Tough Language ; American Sonnet ; Dream 7219 / Wanda Coleman
Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover's Hands (Pellin and Nina) ; Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877 ; Latin Night at the Pawnshop / Martin Espada
Satinlady Blues; Born to Act Out / Jose-Angel Figueroa
Pussy & Cash ; Sun Ra! / Hattie Gossett
Latin Music in New York ; Skull Food #2 / Jessica Hagedorn
The Details We Fall For ; The Heat / Kimiko Hahn
Evergreen (A Chant for the Tropical Rain Forest) ; Poem-Miguel Pinero / David Henderson
1990; Disclaimer ; 6 Short Poems ; Rock'N'Roll Mythology / Bob Holman
Spanish Lesson ; Sly and the Family Stone Under the Big Tit, Atlanta, 1973 / Patricia Jones
God, Mingus and Myself / R. Cephas Jones
Dinosaur love; What's That Clicking on Our Telephone Line? / Eliot Katz
Trickster Rabbit ; Managua Midnight / Roland Legiardi-Laura
Milla ; Juanita / Nancy Mercado
The Uniform of the Day / El Sol y 'L Rovato Loco / Jose Montoya
Poison ; Boomerang ; Moondance / Gavin Moses
Marianita ; Portrait: Dogs at the Well / Louis Rivera.
Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park ; Hungry / Luis Rodriguez
In My Father's House ; Wild Thing / Sapphire
To a Certain Mr. Albert, My Landlord ; For Irwin Heilner ; Good Graces / Michael Scholnick
Skinhead ; Sweet Daddy / Patricia Smith
Mandela in Harlem. (June, 1991) ; King ; Philosophy of the Kool / Sekou Sundiata
Fences ; Yearning / Cheryl Taylor
"Strontium" ; Slot Machine / Emily Xyz
HIV ; Sheets ; Sunday, August 11, 1974 ; Body Bee Calling: From the 21st Century ; Father at Zero-Point-Place / Miguel Algarin
Mariam ; Mason V. Furey ; Interpreting Dreams / Richard August
La Masacre de Ponce ; El Astro de Carolina / Jorge Brandon
Salicrup ; Tonight by Vendor's Booth / Americo Casiano Jr.
Poem to a Wood Sculpture ; In the pocket and Spend It Right ; Piss Side Streets / Lucky Cienfuegos
An Essay on William Carlos Williams ; Three Songs from the 50s ; Art-This ; Haikukoos / Victor Cruz.
Puerto Rican Discovery #20: Ode to Papiros de Babel en el Ateneo Puertorriqueno ; Puerto Rican Discovery #17: Treasures of Theives ; Puerto Rican Discovery #23: Portrait in Raising Self-Esteem ; Two Poems for David Allan / Sandra Esteves
Chica ; Ditty and Jitty ; By the Hair ; Danzon: The Night Before the War 1/15/1991 ; Untitled ; Bacalaitos and Fireworks / Lois Griffith
Soledad ; My Graduation Speech ; Sky People (La Gente del Cielo) ; Tito Madera Smith / Tato laviera
You Jump First ; Prologue for Ode to Road Runner ; Uptown Train ; Telephone Booth Number 102 ; Telephone Booth Number 227 ; Telephone Booth Number 507 ; Telephone Booth Number 905 1/2 ; Wet Hand on Dry Dreams / Pedro Pietri
La Bodega Sold Dreams ; The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito ; New York City Hard Times Blues ; The Records of Time / Miguel Pinero
A Job ; Loisaida ; Paradox and Sleep / Bimbo Rivas
People of Watts ; Porque no Estas Conmigo ; Blood Rhythms-Blood Currents-Black Blue N Stylin' / Ntozake Shange
Born Anew at Each A.M. ; Prologue, Seven Long Times / Piri Thomas
Slant / Elena Alexander.
The Revolution Was Postponed Becuase of Rain / David Allen
Vacant Child / Sheila Alson
The Last Condors in Manhattan / Indran Amirthanayagam
Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico / Rudolfo Anaya
Amnesia / Cynthia Andrews
Holding Him Not As a Child / Zoe Anglesey
I'm a Nuyorican / Pauly Arroyo
In Response to a Brother's Question About What He Should Do When His Best Friend Beats Up His Woman / Asha Bandele
"Oye Mama, Oye, Mama" / Carmen Bardeguez-Brown
Reality? / Denise Bell
Daughter / Nicole Blackman
From White Trash Debutante Ball / Jennifer Blowdryer
A Junkie's Heaven / Shorty Bon Bon
Kiss Death Softly With Blue Lips / Kymberly Brown-Valenzuela
Every Knotted Fist / Alaan Bowe
Little Light / Jim Brodey
Chekovian Depression / Lisa Buscani
Orange / Steve Cannon
The Pretty Boys of Ermita / Nick Carbo
Borinquen / Laurie Carlos
Had It Been / Elizabeth Castagna
Fair Prejudice / Marcel Christian
Ode to a Black Child (AKA Mr. America) / Gabrielle n. Lane Clarke
Lemon Brown / Todd Colby.
Science Was Invented by a Bunch of Guys Who Were So Ugly They Couldn't Possibly Believe in God / Matt Cook
A Man's Tailor/Dakar / Thulani Davis
Mountain Climb / Christina Desrosiers
For the Men Who Still Don't Get It / Carol Diehl
Fear on 11th Street and Avenue A, New York City / Denise Duhamel
Are You Mrs. Lopez' Daughter? / Kathy Ebel
Sleepwalking, Told in Slow Motion / Anne Elliott
The Days of Pot and Ice Cream / Janice Erlbaum
I Want to Be a Woman / Evert Eden
Magic / John Farris
Toad Venom / Gary Glazner
Walk Right / Gloria
"When Two Straw Half-Featured Purrings Navigate" / Mia Hansford
Ah Billie / Dina Hernandez-Correa
Goodbye / Susan Hornik
Bus / Alan Kaufman
Llanto Suave para Pinero / Rick Kearns
Death Beds Love Songs and Ancestors / Michael Ladd
Woman's Song / Patricia Landrum
For Dizz / Shirley Leflore
Intelligent Love / Gary Lenhart
Two Street Things / Robbie Mccauley
Proper Ventilation / Richard Martin
Love / Greg Masters
My Life As I Remember It / Bobby Miller
G-Men in the Pines / David Mills.
PV / Eileen Myles
Adventures of Plastic Man / Ninety 9
Dire Manifesto / Orion
"Po Tree!" / Julie Patton
Please / Carolyn Peyser
Project Blues / Raymond Ramirez
Excerpt from the South Bronx / Noel Rico
Odalisque / Keith Roach
That Kind of Blues / Will Sales
Pueblo Querido / Raul Salinas
25 Mayo 92 en Pullmania, Washington / Ricardo Sanchez
Los Bravos / Gail Schilke
Epithalamium / Susan Scutti
My Bad Angel / Danny Shot
Chicago: Sandburg to Smith, Smith to Sandburg / Marc Smith
The Final Solution / Pamela Sneed
A Testimonial / Sparrow
Panamanian Nights / Carlton Spiller
For Gwen Brooks / Lamont Steptoe
Well? / Everton Sylvester
Paranioa at Its Finest / Nate Tate
Languer/Languor / Vipin
Breaking Tiles / Michael Warr
Meditations on Natural Man / Jack Wiler
Court Appearance / Jeff Wright.

Edition Notes

"A John Macrae book."

"An Owl book"--Cover.

Published in
New York, USA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.540808687295
Library of Congress
PS591.P8 A46 1994

Contributors

Editor
Miguel Algarín
Editor
Bob Holman

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 514 p. ;
Number of pages
514

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24763674M
Internet Archive
aloudvoicesfromn00alga
ISBN 10
0805032754, 0805032576
ISBN 13
9780805032758, 9780805032574
LCCN
94001240
OCLC/WorldCat
29754246

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