In this third collection of verse, Esteves takes all of the rhythmic, bluesy potential and the women's poetic militancy of previous works and brings them to full, resplendent, funky bloom, blending the oral and literary traditions in a fusion of spiritual, blues and women's poetics. "Esteves speaks with punch and politically-astute vigor about the realities of the urban poor. More importantly, however, the poetry draws a big distinction between one being economically poor and spiritually and culturally repressed" (Poetry Flash).
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Affirmations #3, Take Off Your Mask
Affirmations #4
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Autobiography Of A Nuyorican
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Because Life Is A Bitch
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Fighting Demons
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-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
3:00 A.m. Eulogy For A Small Time Poet
Affirmations #1, Life Shopping In Ma Becksy's Deli
Affirmations #2, There Is A Poet Inside You
Affirmations #3, Take Off Your Mask
Affirmations #4
Afterbirths
Alternative Points Of View
Anonymous Apartheid
Autobiography Of A Nuyorican
Bautizo
Because Life Is A Bitch
Black Notes And You Do Something To Me
Braintwister
Death Watch
Father's Day On Longwood Avenue
Fighting Demons
From The Ferrybank
Gringolandia
I Want To Paint
In The Ring
Invisible Inscriptions
Life Is A Journey
Love Affair With A Welfare Hotel
Mambo Love Poem
Mother's Day At Dona Rodriquez
Native American
Ocha
Open Memo To The Congressional Appropiations Committee...
Original Jones Poem In B Flat
Oshun's Love Poem
Padrino
Poema Para La Muerte
Point Of Information
Puerto Rican Discovery #5, Here Like There
Puerto Rican Discovery #6, Lodestar
Puerto Rican Discovery #7, In The Eye Of The Storm
Religious Instructions For Young Casualities
Resurrections
Rites Of Passage #1, Maria Poeta Bled Daily
Sistas
So Your Name Isn't Maria Cristina
South Bronx Testimonial: 3
Springfield
This Is A Hill That Climbs
Unprescribed Symptoms Of A Life Withdrawal
Who Is Going To Tell Me?
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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I had to purchase this book for a literature class that I took, but I was very pleased with the contents! I am not much of a poetry fan, but I enjoyed Ms Esteves'. Edgy and blunt, it cuts right to touchy issues and pain frosted with perserverance and hope. Buying experience was satisfactory and book was in condition listed.
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