| Description |
1 online resource |
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1 online resource (80 pages) |
| Series |
Penguin poets
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Penguin poets.
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| Note |
Electronic book. |
| Summary |
-- Through dream song and elegy, alternate takes and tempos, prizewinning poet Willie Perdomo?s third collection crackles with vitality and dynamism as it imagines the life of a percussionist, rebuilding the landscape of his apprenticeship, love, diaspora, and death. At the beginning of his infernal journey, Shorty Bon Bon recalls his live studio recording with a classic 1970s descarga band, sharing his recollection with an unidentified poet. This opening section is followed by a call-and-response with his greatest love, a singer named Rose, and a visit to Puerto Rico that inhabits a surreal nationalistic dreamscape, before a final jam session where Shorty recognizes his end and a trio of voices seek to converge on his elegy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
How I Came to My Name -- How I Came to My Name -- Bembé-Faced -- The Birth of Shorty Bon Bon (Take #1) -- Arroz con Son y Clave -- Sangre Viva -- The Birth of Shorty Bon Bon (Take #2) -- Start from the End Going Toward the End -- Syncopated Licks -- The Birth of Shorty Bon Bon (Take #3) -- How Cool Was I -- The Birth of Shorty Bon Bon (Take #4) -- The Was of Things -- The Birth of Shorty Bon Bon (Take #5) -- To Be with you -- The Soul May Better Understand -- Dear Shorty (No. 1) -- Delicious Numbers -- Dear Shorty (No. 2) -- The City of You -- Dear Shorty (No. 3) -- How It Went Down -- Dear Shorty (No. 4) -- Maybe Under Some Other Sky -- Dear Shorty (No. 5) -- When the Cure Is Worse Than the Sickness -- Dear Shorty (No. 6) -- Blues for Rose -- Dear Shorty (No. 7) -- Fracture, Flow -- Have It Your Way: Combo -- Official Business -- Feliz Navidad -- Sanjuanero Swag -- Son de Lolita -- Conjugation Games -- Fracture, Flow -- Plaza Las Delicias -- How to Bum-Rush an Island & Blow Up the Spot -- Noches de Galería -- Shorty Bon Bon's Freedom Song -- The Birth of Shorty Bon Bon: Solo -- The Birth of Shorty Bon Bon (Take #6) -- Side A (3:2) -- Side B (2:3) -- The Birth of Shorty Bon Bon (Final Take). |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Poetry.
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poetry. |
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American. |
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Poetry. |
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Lyrik |
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Amerikanisches Englisch |
| Genre/Form |
American poetry -- African American authors.
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| Added Author |
3M Company.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Perdomo, Willie. Poems. Selections. Essential hits of Shorty Bon Bon. New York : Penguin Poets, [2014] 9780143125235 0143125230 (DLC) 2013043007 (OCoLC)852238363 |
| ISBN |
9780698142930 (electronic bk.) |
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0698142934 (electronic bk.) |
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9780143125235 |
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0143125230 |
| Standard No. |
40023494937 |
| Music No. |
EB00394145 Recorded Books |
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