An anthology of Pedro Pietri's theater compiled and prologued by Alfredo Matilla.

Illusions of a Revolving Door/ Ilusiones De Una Puerta Giratoria: Plays Teatro (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Pietri, Pedro

Matilla Rivas, Alfredo

Dramas & Plays

Universidad De Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Obituary

Poetry

Monthly Review+press

Modern Reader Trade Paperback with 108 + pages, size: 8 x 5 1/2". Poetry - The poems are drums. And drums are the tools of magicians...Piertri is a very social poet. There are no love poems here, except that every line breathes his love for his people. And his focus is on the misery that his people are force to suffer in a dying, racist/imperialist world..Pietri's strength is outrage...his rage is carefully controlled, and the more threatening for that reason. Pietri, like David Henderson and Allen Ginsberg, effortlessly telescopes vast social problems inot effective image-clusters. The degradation of the oppressed has never been more acidly funny..." Lorenzo Thomas, University Review.

History

Americas

Los planteamientos sobre lo real y lo ilusorio, las clases sociales, la violencia, las ideologías de derecha e izquierda, y las posibilidades del lenguaje, con el inconfundible sentido del humor cáustico de Pietri permiten descubrir los matices i

The masses are asses =: Las masas son crasas

Instituto De Cultura puertorriquena

"There was no one in this country as ferocious, as brilliant, or as necessary as Pedro Pietri. In these days of growing inequality it is to his rebel vision I turn to for hope and for strength. A towering poet, absolutely peerless, explosively talented, a pioneer, and iconoclast, and activist, to whom the entire spoken word movement owes a debt beyond calculation."—Junot Diaz
"One of the great American poets of the twentieth century, a leader of the Nuyorican poetry movement that ignited at Miguel Algarín's Nuyorican Poet's Cafe. Perhaps the most progressive and at the same time funniest poet of the period."—Amiri Baraka
Pedro Pietri's often playfully absurd poems chronicle the joys and struggles of Nuyoricans—urban Puerto Ricans whose lives straddle the islands of Puerto Rico and Manhattan—and define the Latino experience in urban America. By turns angry, heartbreaking, and hopeful, his writings are imbued with a sense of pride and nationalism and were embraced by the generation of Latino poets that followed him. Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry gathers the most enduring and treasured work among his published books, Puerto Rican Obituary, Traffic Violations, and Out of Order, along with a generous selection of his previously unpublished works.
Pedro Pietri (1944–2004) was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raised in Manhattan. In the early '70s he was a featured poet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
Juan Flores (1943-2014) was a professor and director of Latino Studies at New York University, and author of many books on Puerto Rican and Latino culture.
Pedro López Adorno is a professor in the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies of Hunter College since 1987, and a published poet.

Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry

City Lights Publishers

Traffic Violations

Eighty poems by the acclaimed author of Puerto Rican Obituary, including I Hate Trees, a 16-page elgy called a masterpiece by Library Journal.

Waterfront Pr

The Masses Are Asses

Lost & Found: Series VIII (Lost & Found, 8)

Alcalay, Ammiel

CORTAZAR,JULIO

Di Prima, Diane

RUKEYSER, Muriel

The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY

One of the major playwrights in the Nyorican writers group.

The Masses are Asses (Green Integer)

Green Integer

Pedro Pietri - LOS PANFLETEROS POETRY SERI

Independently published

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