Speaking Wiri Wiri
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ancestral homeland
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Carmen Miranda
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ethnicity
familial displacement
family
geographies of migration
historical insight
immigration
Jose Marti
Latinos in the United States
lgbtq
lyrical
memory
multiple identities
popular history
Vladimir Nabokov
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- ISBN 9781597092746
- Weight: 113g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2013
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the inaugural Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize, Dan Vera’s Speaking Wiri Wiri is a work of historical insight and wry wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it meditates on the challenges of multiple identities, ethnicity, geographies of migration, familial displacement, popular history, and more. Everything is fair game for Vera, who finds poetry in the mundane and the monumental, the hidden lives of iconic television stars and the alternate and accidental histories of Latinos in the United States. Carmen Miranda makes an appearance, as do Captain Kirk, Vladamir Nabokov, and José Martí in a literary landscape careening lyrically between lost and found.
