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Synopsis
A collection of poems that is both autobiographical and a portrait of life in New York's Lower East Side
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As the owner of the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Miguel Algarín is very near the heart of New York's performance poetry scene. He is also a fine writer, one whose work Ishmael Reed has called "powerful, moving, and exciting." In this collection, Algarín takes the reader through a vivid and often nightmarish dreamscape of New York, featuring Angels (including the old-fashioned scary kind), dancing, music, and, sadly, HIV. Algarín's own struggle with the disease drives many of his most poignant lines, as in these from "HIV": "The epiphany: I am unsafe, / you who want me / know that I who want you / harbor the bitter balm of defeat." Later in the same poem Algarín asks two horrified, lonely questions: "Can it be that I am the bearer of plagues? / Do I have to deny yearning for firm full flesh / so that I'll not kill what I love?" That the answer is obvious makes the questions that much more haunting.
About the Author
Miguel Algarin is a founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on New York City's Lower East Side and has hosted the Cafe's live radio broadcasts on WBAI for more than 18 years. He is also a distinguished poet and critic with several books to his credit. He teaches at Rutgers University.
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0684839997
- ISBN 13 9780684839998
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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Love Is Hard Work
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1997. August 1997. Scribner. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684839997. Poetry From The Founder Of The Nuyorican Poets' Cafe. 155 pages. hardcover. Jacket Design By Timothy Hsu. Jacket Photograph By Arlene Gottfried. Author Photograph By Marlis Momber. keywords: Latin America Caribbean Puerto Rico Literature Poetry American Literature New York. DESCRIPTION - At once a moving personal memoir and a colorful portrait of life in New York's Lower East Side (Loisaida), this masterly collection of poems captures the whirlwind of sights, sounds, celebrations and sorrows of urban life. As father of the contemporary Latino literary movement and founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Miguel Algarin has brought the diverse voices and talents of the downtown New York scene to audiences throughout the world. In these poetic renderings of the lives and deaths of numerous friends, Algarin the poet celebrates both the well known and the obscure - and brings to life private loves, nurtured in both pain and joy, and public collaborations, born in the turbulent excitement of Algarin's cafe. In the centerpiece of the book, the poet offers a searing, unsentimental look at himself and his life. A celebration of the beautiful, the grotesque, the comic and the tragic, these poems resound with honesty, passion and grace - a testament to the extraordinary talent and keen eye of Miguel Algarin. inventory #24094. Seller Inventory # z24094
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Love is Hard Work: Memorias de Loisaida
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, first printing. Inscribed by Algarin on the FFEP. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. Light soiling on the fore edge of the text block. The dust jacket shows some light handling and edgewear, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 155pp. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # JCOSalgLH
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