Tertulia (Penguin Poets) - Softcover

Toro, Vincent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143135341 ISBN 13: 9780143135340

Publisher: Penguin Books - Usa, 2020

Synopsis

Puerto Rican poet Vincent Toro's new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the 'tertulia') and revises it for the Latinx context in the United States. In verses dense with juxtaposition, the collection examines immigration, economics, colonialism and race via the sublime imagery of music, visual art, and history. Toro draws from his own social justice work in various U.S. cities to create a kaleidoscopic vision of the connections between the personal and the political, the local and the global, in a book that both celebrates and questions the complexities of the human condition.

About this title

About the Author

Vincent Toro's debut poetry collection, STEREO.ISLAND.MOSAIC., was awarded the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award and the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. He is also a Poet's House Emerging Poets Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Poetry, and winner of The Caribbean Writer's Cecile De Jongh Poetry Prize and Repertorio Español's Nuestras Voces Playwriting Award. Vincent is a professor at Bronx Community College, is poet in the schools for Dreamyard and the Dodge Poetry Foundation, is writing liaison for The Cooper Union's Saturday Program, and is a contributing editor at Kweli Literary Journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books - Usa
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143135341
• ISBN 13: 9780143135340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112