Offers a collection of poems, first published in 1937, that celebrate the African heritage of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, and the West Indies, and the racially mixed cultures that arose as a result.

Tuntun de Pasa y Griferia (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Palés Matos, Luis

Poetry

Universidad De Puerto Rico

Obras (1914-1959)

Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico

Tuntún de pasa y grifería (Colección puertorriqueña) (Spanish Edition)

Although today Luis Pales Matos is virtually unknown to most American readers, the eminent U.S. poet and writer William Carlos Williams once praised his younger contemporary as "one of the most important poets out of Latin America".
Pales Matos was a native, and lifelong resident, of Puerto Rico. Though he was not black, he became one of the Caribbean's leading advocates of poesia negra (black poetry). His landmark 1937 collection Tuntun de Pasa y Griferia: Poesia Afro-Antillana (Tom-Tom of Kinky Hair and Black Things: Afro-Caribbean Poetry) joyously celebrated the African aspects and sources of Puerto Rico's culture and influenced later generations of writers throughout the Western hemisphere.
Translator Julio Marzan has selected the best of Pales Matos's poems from throughout his career, among them "Prelude in Boricua", "Danza Negra", "Buccaneer Winds", and "Elegy on the Duke of Marmalade". He also provides a helpful glossary of obscure terms and an introduction that locates Pales Matos in the broader cultural context of his contemporaries and poetic influences -- including such North American poets as Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vachel Lindsay.

Poesia Selecta (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage) (English, Spanish and Spanish Edition)

Matos, Luis Pales

Arte Publico Press

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