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In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Contemporary North American Poetry) Paperback – May 1, 2014

by Urayoan Noel (Author)

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Since the 1960s, Nuyorican poets have explored and performed Puerto Rican identity both on and off the page. Emerging within and alongside the civil rights movements of the 1960s, the foundational Nuyorican writers sought to counter the ethnic/racial and institutional invisibility of New York City Puerto Ricans by documenting the reality of their communities in innovative and sometimes challenging ways. Since then, Nuyorican poetry has entered the U.S. Latino literary canon and has gained prominence in light of the spoken-word revival of the past two decades, a movement spearheaded by the Nuyorican Poetry Slams of the 1990s. Today, Nuyorican poetry engages with contemporary social issues such as the commodification of the body, the institutionalization of poetry, the gentrification of the barrio, and the national and global marketing of identity. What has not changed is a continued shared investment in a poetics that links the written word and the performing body.

The first book-length study specifically devoted to Nuyorican poetry, In Visible Movement is unique in its historical and formal breadth, ranging from the foundational poets of the 1960s and 1970s to a variety of contemporary poets emerging in and around the Nuyorican Poets Cafe “slam” scene of the 1990s and early 2000s. It also unearths a largely unknown corpus of poetry performances, reading over forty years of Nuyorican poetry at the intersection of the printed and performed word, underscoring the poetry’s links to vernacular and Afro-Puerto Rican performance cultures, from the island’s oral poets to the New York sounds and rhythms of Latin boogaloo, salsa, and hip-hop. With depth and insight, Urayoán Noel analyzes various canonical Nuyorican poems by poets such as Pedro Pietri, Victor Hernández Cruz, Miguel Algarín, Miguel Piñero, Sandra María Esteves, and Tato Laviera. He discusses historically overlooked poets such as Lorraine Sutton, innovative poets typically read outside the Nuyorican tradition such as Frank Lima and Edwin Torres, and a younger generation of Nuyorican-identified poets including Willie Perdomo, María Teresa Mariposa Fernández, and Emanuel Xavier, whose work has received only limited critical consideration. The result is a stunning reflection of how New York Puerto Rican poets have addressed the complexity of identity amid diaspora for over forty years.

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Series: Contemporary North American Poetry
Paperback: 230 pages
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press; 1 edition (May 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1609382447
ISBN-13: 978-1609382445
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Good book, but some photos and maps would've helped.

By B. Wolinsky on August 18, 2014

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I confess that despite moving to NYC in 1996 and spending my entire adult life here (including four years at NYU) I knew nothing of the Nuyorican poetry movement. It wasn’t until I saw the biopic Pinero that I heard about it. Then again, few of my Puerto Rican friends and none of my Puerto Rican students had heard of it either, so I wonder.
Urayoan Noel says in the introduction that the Nuyorican phenomena is the result of the Purto Rican diaspora, being stuck in a strange place. The East Village barrio was close to Greenwich Village and NYU, where you had all the artsy types, more so than Harlem or the Bronx. He cites Piri Thomas’ Down These Mean Streets as a start; Thomas goes from trying to escape his community to realizing that it has its merits. On a funny note, Down These Mean Streets was banned in every community where the teenage Piri Thomas had gone to escape racism.
The first chapter made me realize that the Nuyorican movement had none of the sponsorship that the Harlem Renaissance had. There was no Puerto Rican counterpart to the C.J. Walker company bankrolling Puerto Rican intellectuals, as Madam Walker did in the 1900’s. The Fords, Guggenheims, Astors, and Rockefellers weren’t sponsoring Puerto Rican artists or writers the way America’s millionaires had done with others. In the book Love Goes To Buildings On Fire, the author describes how Bruce Springsteen, a New Jersey native, had a big following among Andy Warhol’s transvestite crowd. His stubbly face, torn jeans, and rough guitar playing was surprisingly appealing to drag queens. But Miguel Pinero and other Puerto Rican poets and musicians; they were ignored by the established crowd. Perhaps the “arts” scene was little more than a clique, just with grown-ups rather than high school alpha-queens?Read more ›

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Excellent Study

By A. Ali on November 10, 2014

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This is the best book written on the subject that I have read so far. The author has done his homework and gives an objective account of the history of these poets and writers. It is strange to me, however, that these writers are placed within a literary movement, by the author and others in academia. At the time things were kind of anarchic and the process by which a lot of poetry was written could be rather unorthodox. Poems were improvised, written on napkins by candlelight. There was an energy, but not an organized movement. That is just my recollection. I guess history is separate from memory.

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By Our Only Island on June 17, 2014

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I will not buy this book since the author has abused Lesbian scholars like my self and has abused his power in telling one of the only women in the book who was ignored for years that she had to answer hundreds of questions for him at no pay. The woman poet told him that what she could do was travel to PA to meet him there at a equidistant point and he refused to do it. Sandra Mari a Esteves, when she found this disdain or lack caring on us Lesbians and Bis, she told me " Why didn't Urayoan seek a grant to pay this woman in Ohio for the interviews and even bring her to NY." Noel had the nerve of contacting me to find Lorraine Sutton and he did find it through me. She was in hidding. He turned around and in a rude way told me that I could not be in touch with her because he was her "handler." He was a handler? When I put him in touch with leads on where to find a peer that fled from NYC? Keep up writing to see if you can control your anger against Lesbian Ricans who defy you and you leave out of everything including this book when I was one of these groups principal poetry slamers and pioneras.

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