Beneath the Spanish
By: Victor Hernández Cruz
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781566894890
Subjects: American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: Beneath the Spanish is history, the clash and melt of cultures, the conquest of the New World, colonialism, bilingualism, fragmentation, and cubism. Poems built of tobacco, sugar, caf?; Spanish, Arabic, English; Jos? Mart?, Federico Garc?a Lorca, and William Carlos Williams. A history and exploration of Hern?ndez Cruz?s Caribbean roots as well as a documentation of and counterpoint to the origin of the European cultural intrusion into the New World, Beneath the Spanish deconstructs and reconstructs a wounded history, offering a prayer for communication between distances, oceans, music, dance, and mountains, revealing the past in the present moment we live. --