BOOKS - Tertulia (Penguin Poets)
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Tertulia (Penguin Poets)
Author: Vincent Toro
Year: June 2, 2020
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.8 MB
Language: English
Year: June 2, 2020
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.8 MB
Language: English
A fluid, expansive new collection from a poet whose work and "dazzles with [an] energetic exploration of the Puerto Rican experience in the new millennium and " (NBC News)Puerto Rican poet Vincent Toro's new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the and "tertulia and ") and revises it for the Latinx context in the United States. In verses dense with juxtaposition, the collection examines immigration, economics, colonialism and race via the sublime imagery of music, visual art, and history. Toro draws from his own social justice work in various U.S. cities to create a kaleidoscopic vision of the connections between the personal and the political, the local and the global, in a book that both celebrates and questions the complexities of the human condition.