Mongo Affair

Algarin, Miguel

Verlag: Nuyorican Press/Nuyorican Poet’s Café, Inc., New York, 1978

Beschreibung

First Edition. 122 pp. VG+ illustrated wraps. Illustrations by Sandra Maria Esteves; cover drawing by Fernando Salicrup; photos by Suzanne Karp Krebs. INSCRIBED by Algarin on ffep: "October 29, 1979 Marilyn, So I remember your upper New York [ ] when we left with a New England portrait tucked into our non-profit-status. M. Algarin."Algarin, who was born in Puerto Rico, taught at Rutgers for more than 30 years, but lived most of his life in New York, died in November 2020. He co-founded the Nuyorican Poet s Café with Pedro Pietri, Miguel Pinero, and others in the early 1970s and is considered a foundational figure in the Nuyorican literary movement, a poet who had a "keen ear for the language of the street and the power of poetry performed live." Algarin helped popularize the term "Nuyorican" which described "the bilingual, bicultural reboot of Puerto Rican-ness blossoming in the neighborhoods of New York."Mongo Affairhas four sections: Short Circuits is about the Nuyorica Poet s Café; El Capitan San Miguelito "is a story poem dealing with the tragic-comic exploits of a lovable Francois Villon"; Currents/Corrientes/Courants is about traveling in Europe and Tangiers with Miguel Pinero and others; Nuyorical Air relays Algarin s "bilingual songs of love and hate for the tar and concrete jungle of Manhattan" ("To the Reader").An excellent inscribed copy of Algarin s second book of poetry, published in the wake of his groundbreaking co-edited collectionNuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings(1975). Uncommon in trade, scarce signed.References:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/arts/miguel-algarin-dead.html;https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/arts/miguel-algarin-nuyorican-poets-cafe-appraisal.html. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 820

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mongo Affair

Verlag: Nuyorican Press/Nuyorican Poet s Café, Inc., New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1978

Einband: Softcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage