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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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.