An exponent of contemporary Latino literature and the founder of the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe+a7, 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.

Love Is Hard Work: Memorias de Loisaida/Poems

Literature & Fiction

Algarin, Miguel

Poetry

Scribner

A collection of poems that is both autobiographical and a portrait of life in New York's Lower East Side

LOVE IS HARD WORK: MemoriAs de Loisaida/Poems

United States

Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings (English and Spanish Edition)

Pinero, Miguel

William Morrow & Co.

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.

On Call

History & Criticism

Art Pr

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

Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo (English and Spanish Edition)

Arte Publico Press

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." Algarin's poems covering his long career give voice to the disenfranchised the junkie, the HIV inflicted, the poverty stricken and survival is a recurring theme. In the essay "Nuyorican Language," which was originally published in 1975, he argues that for the New York Puerto Rican, there are three survival possibilities: to work hard for little money all your life and remain in eternal debt; to live life by taking risks of all types, including killing, cheating and stealing; and to create alternative behavioral habits. The Nuyorican poet, he says, must create a new language, " A new day needs a new language or else the day becomes a repetition of yesterday." While many of the poems focus on the Puerto Rican experience in New York, others touch on universal experiences such as the death of friends and the ephemeral nature of life. "So what if you're dead, / I'm here, you're gone, / and I'm left alone / to watch how time betrays, / and we die slow / so very slow." And he turns his sharp gaze on events around the world, including the fights between England and Argentina for the Falkland Islands, Israel and Palestine for the Holy Land. With an introduction by Ernesto QuiÃ±onez, author of the acclaimed novel Bodega Dreams, this collection takes the reader through an intimate, autobiographical journey of one of the country's leading Nuyorican writers and intellectuals.

Survival Supervivencia (English and Spanish Edition)

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Algarin, Miguel. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.