Coro, El: Chorus of Latino/Latina Poetry - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558491112 ISBN 13: 9781558491113

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

Synopsis

This is an anthology of work by Latino and Latina poets, which reveals a diversity of form and content. Among the poets are former farm workers and gang members, a physician, a chef and a Vietnam veteran. The variety of experience demonstrates that there is no single ""Latino/a outlook"".

About this title

Product Description:

Rare Book

Review:

Naming this one of the Outstanding Books of the Year, the Gustavus Myers Center wrote in its award citation: "The cultural arts play a major role in sustaining a people's dignity, and in strengthening their abilities to combat bigotry. The poems selected by Martin Espada demonstrate this well. The Myers tribute is to the numerous Latino/a writers living and/or working in New England whose poems are shared. Espada introduces the historical, sociopolitical, and literary context in which to read the poems. A near equal number of women and men poets from at least ten countries of origin are included in this collection. Some writing is intensely personal; some overtly political; and some provocatively combine the two. The Myers Review Panel found the collection aesthetically, politically, linguistically, and otherwise outstanding."

--Gustavus Myers Center

Forty-three poets are represented in this new anthology of Latino verse...Concern with racism, nature, feminism, anger, roots, cultural identity, family, and sexuality sour out of these poems, which reward the reader with their diversity, lyrical strength and richness.

--Virginia Quarterly Review

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1558491112
• ISBN 13: 9781558491113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Espada Martin