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Puerto Rico, California, New York, Morocco--these are songs of a poet's genesis, and the places that formed him. Beneath the Spanish is history, the clash and melt of cultures, the conquest of the New World, colonialism, bilingualism, fragmentation, and cubism. Poems built of tobacco, sugar, café; Spanish, Arabic, English; José Martí, Federico García Lorca, and William Carlos Williams. A history and exploration of Hernández Cruz's Caribbean roots as well as a documentation of and counterpoint to the origin of the European cultural intrusion into the New World, Beneath the Spanish deconstructs and reconstructs a wounded history, offering a prayer for communication between distances, oceans, music, dance, and mountains, revealing the past in the present moment we live.
Coffee House Press
Beneath the Spanish
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Book Details
- ISBN:
- 9781566894890
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 176
- Authors:
- Victor Hernandez Cruz
- Publisher:
- Coffee House Press
- Published Date:
- 2017-10-10
- Language:
- English