Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems = poesía selecta / Luis Palés Matos translated from the Spanish, with an introduction by, Julio Marzán.

Author

Palés Matos, Luis

Publication

Houston, TX : Arte Público Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Marzán, Julio, 1946-

Description

xxvi, 141 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Pales Matos was a native, and lifelong resident, of Puerto Rico. Though he was not black, he became one of the Caribbean's leading advocates of poesia negra (black poetry). His landmark 1937 collection Tuntun de Pasa y Griferia: Poesia Afro-Antillana (Tom-Tom of Kinky Hair and Black Things: Afro-Caribbean Poetry) joyously celebrated the African aspects and source of Puerto Rico's culture and influenced later generations of writers throughout the Western hemisphere."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections. English & Spanish
• Digitalia.
• Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication.

Alternative Title

• Poems.
• Poesía selecta
• Poesía selecta

Subjects

• Palés Matos, Luis > Translations into English
• Spanish language materials
• Puerto Rican poetry
• Translations

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: In the Mingling Grain viii -- Part I (1920-1925) -- Claro de Luna 2 -- Moonlight 3 -- El Pozo 4 -- Well 5 -- El Dolor Desconocido 6 -- Unknown Sorrow 7 -- Topografia 8 -- Topography 9 -- de Los Animales Interiores 12 -- from The Animals Within 13 -- Pueblo 14 -- Town 15 -- Nocturno 16 -- Nocturne 17 -- Part II (1926-1937) -- Preludio en Boricua 20 -- Prelude in Boricua 21 -- Cancion Festiva para Ser Llorada 24 -- Festive Song to Be Wept 25 -- Nanigo al Cielo 34 -- Nanigo to Heaven 35 -- Numen 42 -- Numen 43 -- Pueblo Negro 46 -- Black Town 47 -- Candombe 50 -- Candombe 51 -- Bombo 54 -- Bombo 55 -- Majestad Negra 58 -- Black Majesty 59 -- Danza Negra 60 -- Black Dance 61 -- Kalahari 64 -- Kalahari 65 -- Elegia del Duque de la Mermalada 68 -- Elegy on the Duke of Marmelade 69 -- Ten con Ten 70 -- Not This, Not That 71 -- El Gallo 74 -- Gamecock 75 -- de Intermedios del Hombre Blanco Islas 76 -- from White Man's Interludes Islands 77 -- de Intermedios del Hombre Blanco Tambores 78 -- from White Man's Interludes Drums 79 -- Mulata-Antilla 82 -- Mulatta-Antille 83 --

ISBN

1558853030 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00056588^

OCLC

• 44516668
• SCSB-11656309

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library