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02290aam a2200361 i 4500 001 53EFE8A6C38A11E7B100357297128E48 003 SILO 005 20171107010627 008 130207s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012050061 020 $a 1878483668 020 $a 9781878483669 035 $a (OCoLC)827115265 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d CTN $d CHVBK $d NYP $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3562 A849 A54 2014 082 00 $a 811/.54 $2 23 245 04 $a The AmeRiÌcan poet : $b essays on the work of Tato Laviera / $c edited by Stephanie AÌlvarez and William Luis. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Center for Puerto Rican Studies Hunter College, CUNY, $c [2014] 300 $a lxvii, 418 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-403) and index. 520 0 $a Collection of thirteen essays, an introduction, and a foreword, by fifteen established and emerging scholars. Known as a Nuyorican poet, Laviera is more appropriately celebrated as an AmeRiÌcan writer of national and international prominence. As a whole, the essays discuss diverse aspects of Laviera's life and substantial body of work that includes five published collections of poetry, twelve written and staged plays, and many years of political, social, literary, and healthcare activism. Tato Laviera's poetry celebrates working class people and their culture, regardless of ethnicity. He is the inheritor of the Spanish oral tradition, with all of its classical formulas; the African oral tradition, with its connection to music and spirituality ; and the performance imperative of the beat poets. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 600 10 $a Laviera, Tato $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Puerto Rican literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American poetry $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 776 08 $i Online version: $t AmeRiÌcan poet historian. $d New York : Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 2013 $z 9781878483676 $w (DLC) 2013005388 700 1 $a AÌlvarez, Stephanie, $e editor. 700 1 $a Luis, William, $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171205012412.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=53EFE8A6C38A11E7B100357297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search