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The Nuyorican movement is a cultural and intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists who are Puerto Rican or of Puerto Rican descent, who live in or near New York City, and either call themselves or are known as Nuyoricans. [1]
Chicago: Cricket Books. ISBN 0-8126-4750-5. "The teacher was surprised", in Riding low on the street of gold, edited and with an introduction by Judith Ortiz Cofer, 2003. Houston, Texas: Piñata Books; Arte Público Press. "For the Color of My Mother", in Hispanic American literature: an anthology, compiled by Rodolfo Cortina, 1998. Lincolnwood ...
Algarín played an important role in the spread of Nuyorican literature by compiling, with Miguel Piñero, its first anthology Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings. He also founded a publishing house called the Nuyorican Press, which only published one book, his own Mongo Affair. [3]
Nuyorican is a portmanteau word blending "New York" (or "Nueva York" in Spanish) and "Puerto Rican," referring to Puerto Ricans located in or around New York City, their culture, or their descendants (especially those raised or currently living in the New York metropolitan area).
Edwin Torres, "Nuyorican Movement" poet [128] Judge Edwin Torres, writer. New York Supreme Court Justice who wrote Carlito's Way. [129] J. L. Torres (born 1954), writer and poet [130] [131] Justin Torres (born 1980), writer [132] Diego de Torres Vargas a priest who was the first person to write a book about the history of Puerto Rico. [133]
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If so then Deceived Wisdom is the book for you. Organised into easy-to-read standalone sections, it looks at the things we think we know and examines why we don’t know them at all. There is much deceived wisdom in the world – from fit-ness fallacies to dietary deceptions and countless miscellane-ous misconceptions.
Four of his books have received International Latino Book Awards— Radiance, Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier, Love(ly) Child, and the anthology Me No Habla With Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry. Three of his books have also been finalists for Lambda Literary Awards — the novel Christ Like , the anthology Bullets & Butterflies: queer ...