Research Catalog

Title

Action : the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival / edited by Miguel Algarin and Lois Griffith.

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1997.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Algarín, Miguel.
• Griffith, Lois.
• Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival.

Description

xvii, 551 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

From New York's hottest showcase for new poets, playwrights, and performers comes a dynamic collection of more than 30 original works of drama--all published here for the first time. All of the pieces--produced at the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe and other off-Broadway venues--offer readers a front-row seat for the best, most interesting theater in America today.

Series Statement

A Touchstone book

Uniform Title

Touchstone book.

Subjects

• American drama > New York (State) > New York
• Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York > Drama
• American drama > Puerto Rican authors
• American drama > 20th century

Genre/Form

Drama.

Note

• "A Touchstone book."
• Anthology of plays performed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival in New York City.
• Barnard Library copy: Barnard BIPOC Alum Collection. The Barnard BIPOC Alum Collection affirms the lives, histories, and imaginations of past and current Barnard students who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (POC).
• Barnard Library copy: Barnard Alum Collection.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Contents

Life during wartime / Wesley Brown -- Hubba City / Ishmael Reed -- Howda doing' fanky banana / Peter Spiro -- The election machine warehouse / Amiri Baraka -- Playland blues / Miguel Pinero -- Un ghost / Eugene Rodriguez -- Special people of international character / Frank Perez -- Just the boys / Dennis Moritz -- Between blessings / Gloria Feliciano -- The preacher and the rapper / Ishmael Reed -- The Crime / Glen Wright and Raul Santiago Sebazco -- White sirens / Lois Elaine Griffith -- Amor de mis amores / Eva Gasteazoro -- Chapter & Verse / Carl Hancock Rux -- I live in music / Ntozake Shange -- Para Mi / Janis Austor del Valle -- Savage Wilds / Ishmael Reed -- El Cabron / Rev. Pedro Pietri -- The goong hay kid / Alvin Eng -- Primitive world / Amiri Baraka.

ISBN

• 0684826119
• 9780684826110

LCCN

• 97027602
• 99992804850

OCLC

• ocm37293307
• 37293307
• SCSB-3533545

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries