La carreta made a U-Turn /

"La Carreta Made a U-Turn (1979) by Tato Laviera is a foundational collection of Nuyorican poetry. It explores the Puerto Rican immigrant experience in New York, celebrating African roots and bilingual identity while directly responding to/reversing the themes of René Marqués's play La Car...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laviera, Tato
Other Authors: Marqués, René
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Language Notes:Text in English or Spanish.
Published: Gary, Indiana : Arte Público Press, [1979]
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Table of Contents:
  • Metropolis Dreams: para ti, mundo bravo
  • even then he knew
  • frio
  • a tight touch
  • my graduation speech
  • angelito's eulogy in anger
  • a speech outside the jail
  • excommunication gossip
  • subway song
  • something I heard
  • against muñoz pamphleteering
  • the last song of neruda
  • fighting
  • Loisaida Streets: Latinas Sing : virginity
  • a mesage to our unwed women
  • a sensitive bolero in transformation
  • the song of an oppressor
  • titi teita and the taxi driver
  • la tecata
  • the suffering of ruth santiago sanchez
  • soledad
  • nightcap
  • palm tree in spanglish figurines
  • the congas mujer
  • El Arrabal: Nuevo Rumbon : the new rumbon
  • felipe luciano i miss you in africa
  • t the africa in pedro morejon
  • savorings, from pinones to loiza
  • el moreno puertorriqueno (a three-way warning poem)
  • summer wait
  • tumbao
  • summer congas (pregnancy and abortion)
  • the salsa of bethesda foundation
  • haiku
  • orchard beach y la virgen del carmen
  • cancion para un parrandero
  • la musica jibrar
  • dona cisa y su anafre
  • santa barbara
  • coreografia
  • el sonero mayor
  • declamacion.