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Birds on the Kiswar Tree
book
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cross-cultural
cultural studies
culture
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Lynn Levin
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Peru
poetry
Quechua
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Product details
- ISBN 9781940939193
- Weight: 666g
- Dimensions: 6 x 9mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2014
- Publisher: 2Leaf Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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BORICUA PASSPORT evokes the complex in-betweeness that represents the contemporary Puerto Rican condition as filtered through the prism of poet J.L. Torres' life experience. For many Puerto Ricans the sense of being unhomed-having a homeland but not really feeling at home anywhere-is a real lived experience determined by a persisting and unsettled colonial condition. In BORICUA PASSPORT, Torres, screams, shouts, rejoices, celebrates, tickles and challenges with a poetry sprinkled with Spanish/Spanglish that is immediate and urgent. His is a testimony to the indefatigable Puerto Rican spirit which, although burdened by this colonial condition, still strives to cobble a hybrid world full of love, passion and hope. BORICUA PASSPORT will transport any reader into this limbo world with all its fascinating incongruities and descriptive vistas. It's your passport into a world simultaneously real and imaginary, one most people don't even know exists. A must read!
