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Antes que isla es volcán: poemas = Before island is volcano: poems
Audience Adults
Published [2022] by Beacon Press, Boston
ISBN 9780807014578
Bib Id 1450301
Description 70, 70 pages ; 22 cm.
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Leader
cam a22 i 4500
LCCN
2021-050963
ISBN
9780807014578 (trade paperback) $16.00
0807014575
Language
spa eng
Call #
S 861 Salas Rivera
Title
Antes que isla es volcán: poemas = Before island is volcano: poems
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Before island is volcano
Publication Information
[2022] by Beacon Press, Boston :
Description
70, 70 pages ; 22 cm.
Note
Issued with English and Spanish parts bound back-to-back and inverted.
Summary
"In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English versions, antes que isla es volcán daringly imagines a decolonial Puerto Rico. Salas Rivera unfurls series after series of poems that build in intensity: one that casts Puerto Rico as the island of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest, another that imagines a multiverse of possibilities for Puerto Rico's fate, a 3rd in which the poet demands his right to a future and its immediate distribution. The verses are rigorous and sophisticated, engaging with literary and political theory, yet are also hard-hitting, charismatic, and quotable ("won't you be sorry? / won't you wish you had a boss? / won't you get restless / with all that freedom?")."--
Language Note
Text in English and Spanish on inverted pages.
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Poetry.
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