Product Description: In this affecting collection of poetry and prose, Nuyorican poet Miguel Algarin crafts beautifully angry, sad pieces about injustice and loss. While warning his compatriots about the unreality of the American Dream, he acknowledges that "we are the pistons that / move the roughage through Uncle / Sam's intestines, we keep the flow / of New York happening / we are its muscles...read more

Product Description: From New York's hottest showcase for new poets, playwrights, and performers comes a dynamic collection of more than 30 original works of drama--all published here for the first time. All of the pieces--produced at the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe and other off-Broadway venues--offer readers a front-row seat for the best, most interesting theater in America today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An exponent of contemporary Latino literature and the founder of the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe, a poetry salon in New York City, presents a cycle of poems redolent of the sights, sounds, and culture of the city. Simultaneous. 10,000 first printing.

A multicultural selection of contemporary poems by Puerto Rican and other poets who meet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City

Poetry in English and Spanish, openly political, blatantly blunt, and religiously irreverent, reaches from the innermost corners of the soul to the streets of New York, to the battlegrounds of Central America, and finally to union with the godhead

Forty-three poltical poems cover the situations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Chile

Product Description: A book of poems on the cutting edge of cultural innovation. On Call is the model of Algarín's esthetics; it transcends the search for identity, roots, and heritage. On Call reaches down into the recesses of our callused sensitivity, awakens us and, in so doing, makes us part of the poetic process...read more

Product Description: Pueto Rican poetry collection