Product Description: These poems mine the rich history and broad influence of Islam in Spain and beyond, and illuminate connections between places as diverse and far-flung as Puerto Rican villages, the bustling streets of New York, and the sun-drenched beaches of Morocco...read more

Product Description: "Readers should be prepared for weeping, laughing, and awe."―Harvard Review A definitive anthology of the best United States Latino and Latina poets from diverse origins in the Latin world: Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Puerto Rico: Julia Alvarez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Juan Felipe Herrera, Pat Mora, Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Luis J...read more

Product Description: Renowned for his pioneering mixture of both Spanish and English in poetry and prose, Victor Hernández Cruz has now incorporated Arabic language and North African culture into his unique poetic idiom. As Cruz builds poetic bridges between Arab-influenced Spain, Spanish-influenced North Africa, African--influenced Puerto Rico, and an electrified Latino New York, he uncovers the confluence between their various geographies, histories, languages, and mythologies...read more

Product Description: Seeds of imagination turn into magical rhythms in this collection spanning thirty-five years.Born in Puerto Rico in 1949, Victor Hernández Cruz moved to New York at the age of six, but he has retained the memories of hearing the men in his family read novels and poems aloud as they rolled cigars in the steamy Caribbean heat...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Born in Puerto Rico in 1949, Cruz moved to New York at age six, but always remembered hearing novels and poems declaimed as the men in his family rolled cigars, and the children put little bands around them. Those memories continue to inform a body of work that has dazzled readers since he exploded onto the international scene with Snaps, from Random House in 1969...read more

Product Description: Dancing in your hands, Panoramas illuminates Latin American/Caribbean culture in the U.S. and abroad. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Poems and other writings reveal the Puerto Rican experience on an island where Indian, Spanish, African, and Anglo cultures meet as well as on the mainland

A collection of poems which demonstrate the author's transformation into a poet who experiments with the linguistic possibilities of Spanish-English bilingualism

Product Description: Book by Cruz, Victor Hernandez