LA Carreta Made a U-Turn (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Laviera, Tato

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Laviera celebrates the Puerto Rican experience in New York providing a gallery of portraits of the indomitable inhabitants of the enclave, whose lives are evoked through soulful rhythmic songs. "Enclave serves as a very timely manifestation of the modern Hispanic. It would probably be a very appropriate text in a high school or college Puerto Rican Studies or Chicano studies class." (Lector)

Enclave (English, Spanish and Spanish Edition)

Laviera, T

Poetry

Arte Publico Press

American

Arte Publico Pr

Laviera affirms that Hispanic language, lore, art, and history are transforming the national culture and identity of this country. It is not the role of Hispanics to follow the dictates of a shadowy norm, but to remain faithful to their collective and individual identities . . . to either lay claim to mainstream territory or disprove its very existence.

Mainstream Ethics (English and Spanish Edition)

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"...a clear and refreshing note of affirmation, humaneness, joy and vigor in the face of poverty, alienation and oppression. Tato Laviera has produced a remarkably varied first book of poems". -- Explorations In Ethnic Studies
"The overall impression, despite the strategic shift from one language to the other, is one of almost undetectably fluid transition, and from the standpoint of either language tradition, of a qualitative expansion of idiomatic resources".

La Carreta Made A U-Turn (English and Spanish Edition)

Poetry. In Tato Laviera's third collection, poems build on themes of ethnic exchange and the place of the borinqueno in that greater scheme. "This performance poet's voice resonates loud and clear through forceful rhythmic variations and a complete command of both Spanish and English"--Hispania. "AMERICAN is branching out, the striking of sympathetic chords with other cultural groups on the basis of expansive Puerto Rican sounds and rhythms...He seeks to stake a claim for Puerto Rican recognition before the whole US society"--Journal of Ethnic Studies.

AmeRican, 2nd Edition

i think in spanish / i write in english / i want to go back to puerto rico / but I wonder if my kink could live / in ponce, mayaguez and carolina. Born in Puerto Rico but raised in New York City, Tato Laviera's poetry reflects his bilingual, bicultural Nuyorican existence while celebrating the universality of the human condition and his European, indigenous and African roots. Tato Laviera explores identity, community, urban life, oppression and much more in these multi-layered pieces that spanned his too-short life. Many deal with themes specific to the immigrant experience, such as the sense of alienation many feel when they are not accepted in their native or adopted land. In nuyorican, he writes about returning to his native island, only to be looked down upon for his way of speaking: ahora regreso, con un corazón boricua, y tú / me desprecias, me miras mal, me atacas mi hablar. Music and dance, an integral part of Puerto Rican life, permeate Laviera's verse and pay homage to the Caribbean s African roots. i hear merengue in french haiti / and in dominican blood, / and the guaracha in yoruba, / and the mambo sounds inside the plena. Including all of his previously published poems and some that have never been published, these are bold expressions of hybridity in which people of mixed races speak a combination of languages. He skillfully weaves English and Spanish, and frequently writes in Spanglish. The importance of language and its impact on his identity is evident in poems entitled Español, Bilingue and Spanglish. Known for his lively, energetic poetry readings, Bendición represents an internationally recognized poet's life work and will serve to keep Tato Laviera's words and the issues he wrote about alive long after his death.

Bendici N: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera

From his perch high up on a mountaintop, a young Mayan prince watched as raindrops formed in the clouds below him. Suddenly, within each drop, there was a child! The raindrop children landed gently on the ground and Mayanito raced down the mountainside to play with them. They were from Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica and other countries in the Americas, but as the sun warmed the land, they evaporated and turned into flowers!Mayanito was sad to lose his friends, so he decided to go find them. Thankfully, the animals of the jungle--including Pablito the snake, Teresa the crocodile and Rafael the jaguar--helped him. In this adventurous romp through the rainforest, monkeys pulled him from quicksand and carried him over a waterfall in a hammock made of vines! Riding on a flamingo's back, he landed in the village far below his mountaintop home and finally found his new friends. Together, they rode an inchworm train back up the mountain. And when Mayanito was named king, he declared all the children of the hemisphere members of his tribe!Gabhor Utomo's gorgeous illustrations of the lush rainforest, its flora and fauna complement the boy's fantastical journey in this bilingual picture book for children ages 5-10. Parents and teachers will find this beautiful book provides a good introduction to basic concepts of jungle creatures, geography and even musical instruments from different regions.

Mayanito's New Friends / Los Nuevos Amigos de Mayanito (English and Spanish Edition)

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