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Antes que isla es volcán: poemas = Before island is volcano: poems

Title: Antes que isla es volcán: poemas = Before island is volcano: poems / Raquel Salas Rivera.
Author: Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel
Publication: Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]

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Description

70, 70 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English versions, antes que isla es volcán daringly imagines a decolonial Puerto Rico. Salas Rivera unfurls series after series of poems that build in intensity: one that casts Puerto Rico as the island of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest, another that imagines a multiverse of possibilities for Puerto Rico's fate, a 3rd in which the poet demands his right to a future and its immediate distribution. The verses are rigorous and sophisticated, engaging with literary and political theory, yet are also hard-hitting, charismatic, and quotable ("won't you be sorry? / won't you wish you had a boss? / won't you get restless / with all that freedom?")."--

Series Statement

Voces alzadas

Uniform Title

Raised voices (Beacon Press). Spanish.

Alternative Title

Before island is volcano

Subject

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

Issued with English and Spanish parts bound back-to-back and inverted.

Language (note)

Text in English and Spanish on inverted pages.

Call Number

JFD 22-753

ISBN

9780807014578
0807014575

LCCN

2021050963

OCLC

1277183477

Author

Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel, author.

Title

Antes que isla es volcán: poemas = Before island is volcano: poems / Raquel Salas Rivera.

Publisher

Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Voces alzadas

Raised voices (Beacon Press). Spanish.

Language

Text in English and Spanish on inverted pages.

Added Author

Container of (work): Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel. Antes que isla es volcán.

Container of (work): Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel. Antes que isla es volcán. English.

Research Call Number

JFD 22-753

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