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Pinero- 2001- Puerto Rican in New York
Miguel Pinero
Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes.
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The House on Mango Street |
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- Sandra Cinseros; Esperanza growing up in her little old red house on Mango street- the vingettes tell of stories around her happening on the street
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My name
Papa who wakes up tired in the dark
No speak English
A smart cookie
Red clowns
Mango says goodbye sometimes |
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| And the Earth Did Not devour Him |
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| - Thomas Rivera- 1971- little boy narrator; migrant farmers; Ohio |
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| - Rosario and Aurora Levins Morales- part of a book of poems and vignettes of a shared viewpoint of mother and daughter; two voices- I am a child of the Americas-(1986) |
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| - Tato Laieras- Spanglish- (1979) |
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| Pinero- a poem he wrote before his death; talks about being buried where he lived where all the hardship is (1980) |
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| The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez |
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| -unknown author- poem about a Mexican being accused of murder- conversation with other people involved; written sometime after june 1901; a horse trade went wrong with a language barrier |
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| - Pedro Pietri- native new Yorker born in Ponce, PR. Offers few alternatives beyond defiance, desperation, and an appeal to ethnic pride. (1973)- poem that Edrik read out loud in class; the names of people who are living and working until they die; hoping that they will get the life that they dreamed about |
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| - Rodolfo “corky” Gonzales- the narrator shows an affinity with the 1850s pro- Mexican bandit Joaquin Murrieta, who was forced off this California gold- field claim and became a symbol of the Mexican American who fights the injustices levied against him. (1967) |
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| - William Carlos Williams--early 1920s- about his ideas of America and his origins; Puerto Rican; multicultural description of the Americas |
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