Condom poems 4 sale one size fits all
By: Pedro Pietri ; Rojo Robles, editor ; Afterword by Cristina Pérez Díaz
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 8, number 5
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9781733931724
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; American poetry; Puerto Rican authors; History and criticism; Condoms; Poetry
Description: "As part of his activism during the AIDS crisis, Pedro Pietri created a series of object-poems typed onto manila envelopes, each with a condom tucked inside called, "Telephone Booth." Pietri gave these away on the streets of New York. Condom Poems 4 Sale One Size Fits All, through a small, unpublished selection, and an envelope of visual works from the archive, offers an entry point into Pietri's boundless production, and into this specific iteration of his sex advocacy activism."--Supplied by publisher.
Notes: Consists of 1 volume, and 1 envelope (11 photographs with individual titles, 2 condoms); Get tested, Go screw, and None of your business painted by Margarita Deida Pietri.

Includes bibliographical references.

"El Reverendo Pedro Pietri (1944-2004) was a Nuyorican interdisciplinary artist, poet, performer, conceptualist, playwright, screenwriter, cultural, and AIDS activist. He was one of the founders of the Nuyorican Poets Café and the DIY collective Latin Insomniacs Motorcycle Club (Without Motorcycles.) He was also the co-director of El Puerto Rican Embassy. His sui generis work moves freely between gritty urban realities and the absurd, between diasporic and Puerto Rican nationalist formations, between life and death, English and Spanish, NYC-Puerto Rican streets and his own intricate mindscapes."--Supplied by publisher.

"Rojo Robles Rojo Robles is a Puerto Rican writer, playwright, and filmmaker (rojorobles.com). Since 2004 he has been the director of El kibutz del deseo, an independent platform dedicated to producing plays, films, and publishing fiction. Robles graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, with a BA in Theater and a Master in Comparative Literature. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures Program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is also a lecturer at the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY."--Supplied by publisher.

"Cristina P. Díaz is currently completing a PhD in Classics at Columbia University. She earned an M.A. in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and an M.A. in Classics from the Graduate Center, CUNY. One of her areas of specialty is Classical Reception. From 2015-2016, she was a Public Humanities Fellow (New York Council for the Humanities) and a Mellon Fellow for Public Engagement (Center for the Humanities, CUNY). As a fellow at the Center for the Humanities, she was part of a seminar on the theory of translation. With the support from the Public Humanities Fellowship, her original play, Western, a play staging Antigone and her brothers, was produced in 2016 in collaboration with the theater company Caborca at El Flamboyán, New York. Her poems in Spanish and English have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. She is currently working towards the publication of her translation into English of José Watanabe's Antígona. She is also the Founding Editor of The Puerto Rico Review, and of its translation branch-magazine, Not in the original."--Supplied by publisher.

Purchased March 10, 2020, with the Aloian Book Fund.

As issued, saddle-stitched in printed lavender paper; in prefab case, 28 cm.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "I cannot save your soul with religion, I can save your life with a consom": Reverendo Pedro Pietri's safe sex advocacy work  -- Rojo Robles; title: Condom poems 4 sale one size fits all  -- Pedro Pietri; title: Afterword : Llamadas de larga distancia para una poética del desempleo  -- Cristina Pérez Díaz; title: Biographical notes --; title: Acknowledgements --; title: Lost & Found ;-- Envelope contents : postcards (Poems and condoms (photographer unknown) -- Rent a coffin (photographer unknown) -- By all means -- Get tested (Margarita Deida Pietri, painter) -- Go screw (Margarita Deida Pietri, painter) -- Masturbation -- None of your business (Margarita Deida Pietri, painter) -- Keep us in mind in case -- Loose condoms -- Loose joints -- We also rent), two LifeStyles condoms.