| Description |
76 pages ; 21 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Summary |
Poems from one of the new voices of New York's Nuyorican Poets Cafe. In Dreaming, I Was Only Dreaming, he writes: "My history professor / has a bad habit / of looking at me when / discussing slavery / ... / Professor / why do you / keep looking at me / when you / discuss slavery? / Last I heard / I was free." in.). |
| Contents |
123rd Street Rap -- Where I'm From -- Nigger-Reecan Blues -- This Is for Mamasita -- bop gone bad -- Take Out -- Let Me Ask You Somethin' -- Sangre en Harlem -- Unemployed Mami -- Song for Langston -- Promises, Promises -- Brother Lo -- Revolution -- Catch-22 -- Last Junkie Poem -- Nuyorican School of Poetry -- Prophet Born in Harlem -- Que Viva Chango -- Save the Youth -- Clyde -- Funeral -- True Colors -- Poet in Harlem -- Postcards of El Barrio -- Harlem Plays the Best Ball in the World -- Monkey in the Middle -- Another Poem for Billie Holiday -- Dreaming, I Was Only Dreaming -- The Making of a Harlem Love Poem -- The New Stuff -- Hustler's Song -- Letter to Pedro Aviles -- Reflections on the Metro-North, Winter 1990. |
| Subject |
City and town life -- Poetry.
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City and town life. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Subject |
New York (N.Y.) -- Poetry.
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National Book Committee. |
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Puerto Ricans -- Poetry.
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Puerto Ricans. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
0393313832 (paperback) |
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9780393313833 (paperback) |
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0613340116 |
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9780613340113 |
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1439564701 (hardcover) |
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9781439564707 (hardcover) |
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