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The poem tells the story of a black Puerto Rican who "answers" a white-skinned Puerto Rican after the latter calls the Afro-Puerto Rican "black" and "big lipped." In his answer, the black man describes both his own African attributes while also describing the Caucasian attributes of the white Puerto Rican as well as that person's light-skinned daughter.
Cervantes was born in 1954 in the Mission District of San Francisco, and is of Mexican and Chumash ancestry. [2] After her parents divorced when she was five, she grew up in San Jose with her mother, grandmother and brother. [2] She grew up speaking English exclusively. This was strictly enforced by her parents, who allowed only English to be ...
Poetry book published in 1995 by Ecuadorian poet Karina Galvez. It contains English and Spanish versions of Galvez' poems. Foreword for the book was written by Leon Roldos Aguilera, former vice-president of Ecuador. 106 pages. Most poems are love poems, but poems about Guayaquil, California, and children's poems were also included. [6]
Printable version; In other projects ... This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... Cantares de gesta (1 C, 4 P) E. Epic poems in Spanish (2 ...
One special way to show your appreciation for your mom is with a heartfelt Mother's Day poem, like the 25 below. Some are from famous poets, like Edgar Allan Poe , while others are lesser-known.
Gloria Fuertes García (28 July 1917 – 27 November 1998) was a Spanish poet, author of children's literature, and regular participant in children's television shows.She was part of the post-war literary movement of postismo, [1] and a member of the Generation of '50. [2]
Paula Marie Francis was born on October 24, 1939 in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation. [5] [6] Of mixed Scottish American, Lebanese-American, and Laguna descent, Allen always identified most closely with the Laguna, among whom she spent part of her childhood. [7]
Martín & Meditations on the South Valley is a semiautobiographical poetry collection or "novel in verse" [1] written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published in 1987. [2] Contents of the book include an introduction by Denise Levertov, (poetry editor at Mother Jones to whom Baca sent his early poems while in prison [3]), Martín, an epic poem in nine parts, Meditations on the South Valley, a ...