Aloud
Subtitle: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
By: edited by Miguel Algarín and Bob Holman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780805032758; 9780805032574
Subjects: Puerto Ricans; Literatencafé; American poetry; Nuyorican Poets Cafe; Puerto Rican authors; Lyrik; Poetry; City and town life
Description: A multicultural selection of contemporary poems by Puerto Rican and other poets who meet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City.
Notes: "A John Macrae book."

"An Owl book"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Darryl Strawberry Asleep in a Field of Dreams ; At Ease / Paul Beatty; title: An Open Letter to Myself ; Front Page or Bust ; "There Must Be a Conspiracy" / Nicole Breedlove; title: Fantasy Lover #5; Housecleaning / Dana Bryant; title: Check One ; Game Boy / Regie Cabico; title: Lonely Night in New York ; At the Aids Clinic ; U.N. Resolution / Xavier Cavazos; title: The Romanticization / Samantha Coerbell; title: Blues Tomorrow ; Wait / Malkia Amala Cyril; title: Rock Me, Goong Hay! ; Twas the Night Before Chinese New Year's / Alvin Eng; title: The Stupid Jerk I'm Obsessed With ; Sex Goddess of the Western Hemisphere / Maggie Estep; title: Please Don't Take My Air Jordans ; Thomas the Burnt English Muffin ; Just Another Misunderstood Brother / Reg E. Gains; title: No, Fuck Me ; You Kill My Love For Your Love For Me Kills Me / Eliza Galaher; title: Sendin' Out a P.B. / Christian Haye; title: His Victim ; Peephole / Indigo; title: I Heard the Bird ; Mambo in "T" Major / Tito Lespier; title: New Yok City Rundown (European on Me) / Tony Medina; title: Rebirth of New Rican ; The Last Hispanic / Ed Morales; title: Project Princess ; Morenita ; The Spot / Tracie Morris.; title: Poem II for Annie Sexton ; She's Come Undone ; Mother Love / Dael Orlandersmith; title: Nigger-Reecan Blues ; Reflections on the Metro North, Winter 1990 / Willie Perdomo; title: Twins ; Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down / Kevin Powell; title: La Negra ; Celibacy / Kathy Price; title: Geneva Cottrell, Waiting for the Dog to Die ; Save the Animals / Carl Hancock Rux; title: I Finally Managed to Speak to Her ; Deformed Finger ; One Thing Leads to Another ; Sons / Hal Sirowitz; title: "The Smells of Two Over" ; June 15, 1990 / Paul Skiff; title: We All Need ; Work ; Cause and Effect / Peter Spiro; title: The Emperor's Second Wife ; Elegy ; Address / Adrienna Su; title: Dig on the Decade ; I.E. Seducer ; Mission-Fuckin'-Impossible / Edwin Torres; title: The Most Beautiful Word in the American Language ; 7:00 and the Tulips Are Red ; The Bakery Has No Bakers / Mike Tyler; title: Roma Roja Raja Tabla ; Voraz Leon ; Foolish Rituals / Alurista; title: Dust-Bowl Memory ; Bells ; Choices ; Black Mesa / Jimmy Baca; title: 1-800-Hot-Ribs ; Mr. X ; Deathwatch Beetle / Catherine Bowman; title: Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question ; Alphabet City Serenade ; Pena's Son / Diane Burns.; title: Tough Language ; American Sonnet ; Dream 7219 / Wanda Coleman; title: Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover's Hands (Pellin and Nina) ; Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877 ; Latin Night at the Pawnshop / Martin Espada; title: Satinlady Blues; Born to Act Out / Jose-Angel Figueroa; title: Pussy & Cash ; Sun Ra! / Hattie Gossett; title: Latin Music in New York ; Skull Food #2 / Jessica Hagedorn; title: The Details We Fall For ; The Heat / Kimiko Hahn; title: Evergreen (A Chant for the Tropical Rain Forest) ; Poem-Miguel Pinero / David Henderson; title: 1990; Disclaimer ; 6 Short Poems ; Rock'N'Roll Mythology / Bob Holman; title: Spanish Lesson ; Sly and the Family Stone Under the Big Tit, Atlanta, 1973 / Patricia Jones; title: God, Mingus and Myself / R. Cephas Jones; title: Dinosaur love; What's That Clicking on Our Telephone Line? / Eliot Katz; title: Trickster Rabbit ; Managua Midnight / Roland Legiardi-Laura; title: Milla ; Juanita / Nancy Mercado; title: The Uniform of the Day / El Sol y 'L Rovato Loco / Jose Montoya; title: Poison ; Boomerang ; Moondance / Gavin Moses; title: Marianita ; Portrait: Dogs at the Well / Louis Rivera.; title: Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park ; Hungry / Luis Rodriguez; title: In My Father's House ; Wild Thing / Sapphire; title: To a Certain Mr. Albert, My Landlord ; For Irwin Heilner ; Good Graces / Michael Scholnick; title: Skinhead ; Sweet Daddy / Patricia Smith; title: Mandela in Harlem. (June, 1991) ; King ; Philosophy of the Kool / Sekou Sundiata; title: Fences ; Yearning / Cheryl Taylor; title: "Strontium" ; Slot Machine / Emily Xyz; title: HIV ; Sheets ; Sunday, August 11, 1974 ; Body Bee Calling: From the 21st Century ; Father at Zero-Point-Place / Miguel Algarin; title: Mariam ; Mason V. Furey ; Interpreting Dreams / Richard August; title: La Masacre de Ponce ; El Astro de Carolina / Jorge Brandon; title: Salicrup ; Tonight by Vendor's Booth / Americo Casiano Jr.; title: Poem to a Wood Sculpture ; In the pocket and Spend It Right ; Piss Side Streets / Lucky Cienfuegos; title: An Essay on William Carlos Williams ; Three Songs from the 50s ; Art-This ; Haikukoos / Victor Cruz.; title: Puerto Rican Discovery #20: Ode to Papiros de Babel en el Ateneo Puertorriqueno ; Puerto Rican Discovery #17: Treasures of Theives ; Puerto Rican Discovery #23: Portrait in Raising Self-Esteem ; Two Poems for David Allan / Sandra Esteves; title: Chica ; Ditty and Jitty ; By the Hair ; Danzon: The Night Before the War 1/15/1991 ; Untitled ; Bacalaitos and Fireworks / Lois Griffith; title: Soledad ; My Graduation Speech ; Sky People (La Gente del Cielo) ; Tito Madera Smith / Tato laviera; title: You Jump First ; Prologue for Ode to Road Runner ; Uptown Train ; Telephone Booth Number 102 ; Telephone Booth Number 227 ; Telephone Booth Number 507 ; Telephone Booth Number 905 1/2 ; Wet Hand on Dry Dreams / Pedro Pietri; title: La Bodega Sold Dreams ; The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito ; New York City Hard Times Blues ; The Records of Time / Miguel Pinero; title: A Job ; Loisaida ; Paradox and Sleep / Bimbo Rivas; title: People of Watts ; Porque no Estas Conmigo ; Blood Rhythms-Blood Currents-Black Blue N Stylin' / Ntozake Shange; title: Born Anew at Each A.M. ; Prologue, Seven Long Times / Piri Thomas; title: Slant / Elena Alexander.; title: The Revolution Was Postponed Becuase of Rain / David Allen; title: Vacant Child / Sheila Alson; title: The Last Condors in Manhattan / Indran Amirthanayagam; title: Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico / Rudolfo Anaya; title: Amnesia / Cynthia Andrews; title: Holding Him Not As a Child / Zoe Anglesey; title: I'm a Nuyorican / Pauly Arroyo; title: In Response to a Brother's Question About What He Should Do When His Best Friend Beats Up His Woman / Asha Bandele; title: "Oye Mama, Oye, Mama" / Carmen Bardeguez-Brown; title: Reality? / Denise Bell; title: Daughter / Nicole Blackman; title: From White Trash Debutante Ball / Jennifer Blowdryer; title: A Junkie's Heaven / Shorty Bon Bon; title: Kiss Death Softly With Blue Lips / Kymberly Brown-Valenzuela; title: Every Knotted Fist / Alaan Bowe; title: Little Light / Jim Brodey; title: Chekovian Depression / Lisa Buscani; title: Orange / Steve Cannon; title: The Pretty Boys of Ermita / Nick Carbo; title: Borinquen / Laurie Carlos; title: Had It Been / Elizabeth Castagna; title: Fair Prejudice / Marcel Christian; title: Ode to a Black Child (AKA Mr. America) / Gabrielle n. Lane Clarke; title: Lemon Brown / Todd Colby.; title: Science Was Invented by a Bunch of Guys Who Were So Ugly They Couldn't Possibly Believe in God / Matt Cook; title: A Man's Tailor/Dakar / Thulani Davis; title: Mountain Climb / Christina Desrosiers; title: For the Men Who Still Don't Get It / Carol Diehl; title: Fear on 11th Street and Avenue A, New York City / Denise Duhamel; title: Are You Mrs. Lopez' Daughter? / Kathy Ebel; title: Sleepwalking, Told in Slow Motion / Anne Elliott; title: The Days of Pot and Ice Cream / Janice Erlbaum; title: I Want to Be a Woman / Evert Eden; title: Magic / John Farris; title: Toad Venom / Gary Glazner; title: Walk Right / Gloria; title: "When Two Straw Half-Featured Purrings Navigate" / Mia Hansford; title: Ah Billie / Dina Hernandez-Correa; title: Goodbye / Susan Hornik; title: Bus / Alan Kaufman; title: Llanto Suave para Pinero / Rick Kearns; title: Death Beds Love Songs and Ancestors / Michael Ladd; title: Woman's Song / Patricia Landrum; title: For Dizz / Shirley Leflore; title: Intelligent Love / Gary Lenhart; title: Two Street Things / Robbie Mccauley; title: Proper Ventilation / Richard Martin; title: Love / Greg Masters; title: My Life As I Remember It / Bobby Miller; title: G-Men in the Pines / David Mills.; title: PV / Eileen Myles; title: Adventures of Plastic Man / Ninety 9; title: Dire Manifesto / Orion; title: "Po Tree!" / Julie Patton; title: Please / Carolyn Peyser; title: Project Blues / Raymond Ramirez; title: Excerpt from the South Bronx / Noel Rico; title: Odalisque / Keith Roach; title: That Kind of Blues / Will Sales; title: Pueblo Querido / Raul Salinas; title: 25 Mayo 92 en Pullmania, Washington / Ricardo Sanchez; title: Los Bravos / Gail Schilke; title: Epithalamium / Susan Scutti; title: My Bad Angel / Danny Shot; title: Chicago: Sandburg to Smith, Smith to Sandburg / Marc Smith; title: The Final Solution / Pamela Sneed; title: A Testimonial / Sparrow; title: Panamanian Nights / Carlton Spiller; title: For Gwen Brooks / Lamont Steptoe; title: Well? / Everton Sylvester; title: Paranioa at Its Finest / Nate Tate; title: Languer/Languor / Vipin; title: Breaking Tiles / Michael Warr; title: Meditations on Natural Man / Jack Wiler; title: Court Appearance / Jeff Wright.