Juan R Flores

The cuban team: Los once poetas cubanos (Spanish Edition)

Coloqué sobre la mesa varios libros publicados por poetas de la Bella. Me tumbé sobre el camastro como un Rey de los suburbios y sin mucho que exigirme comencé. Qué decepción. Una poesía del lenguaje? Qué lenguaje? Un compendio de lo bello? Qué belleza? De aquellas maravillas me quedé con cuatro gat...

The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales)

Alamar, the home of award-winning Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores, is the setting for his collection, The Counterpunch and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales). Constructed as a self-help community in eastern Havana, Alamar is the largest housing complex in the world....

Divided Arrival: Narratives of the Puerto Rican Migration, 1920-1950

Medicina del dolor: Perspectiva internacional (Spanish Edition)

La presente obra ha sido concebida para convertirse en un referente internacional en medicina del dolor en lengua española. A lo largo de 10 secciones y dos apéndices se cubren aspectos globales y bases científicas, diagnóstico y farmacología, procedimientos intervencionistas, síndromes de dolor re...

Puerto Rican Arrival In New York: Narratives Of The Migration, 1920-1950

"First to disembark were passengers traveling first class - businessmen, well-to-do families, students. In second class, where I was, there were the emigrants, most of us tabaqueros, or cigar workers..." Thus writes Bernardo Vega in this collection of engaging and readable first-hand reminiscences a...

A Companion to Latina/o Studies

A Companion to Latina/o Studies is a collection of 40 original essays written by leading scholars in the field, dedicated to exploring the question of what 'Latino/a' is. Brings together in one volume a diverse range of original essays by established and emerging scholars in the field of Latina/...

The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s ...

Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry

"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 wh...