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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMBITIOUS RAINS OF MOIST SEPTEMBER, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The flowered illusion %pano-ramas
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Desire; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Singing And Singers


AMERICA, by STEPHEN SONDHEIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Puerto rico, you lovely island
Last Line: Everyone there will have moved here
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


AMERICAN, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We gave birth to a new generation
Last Line: Word, american, america!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ANNUNCIATIONS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Robbed of titian at the national gallery
Last Line: Forgive me, forgive me-I am not without sin
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ARAB, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Allah be praised
Last Line: Victory, %your %name!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


AT MY FATHER'S FUNERAL, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, a free-thinker, who
Last Line: Merge-when I kiss him it is as if %I were kissing myself goodbye
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BLACK, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Full moonlight in central park
Last Line: Come %song, %song, %song!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BODA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boda gathering modeling a wide display
Last Line: Atlar'
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BOOK, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day arrived, %published book date
Last Line: Allowed myself to call me %beautiful
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BORICUA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are a people
Last Line: Lovers who love %to love respect
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BOYHOOD, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind our puerto rican santurce
Last Line: We kept the secret
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


BRAVA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They kept on telling me
Last Line: Is full of premature short- %comings
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CAFE, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dry %roasted %out %of %sun
Last Line: Light %mmmm %cafe %sabor
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CANTE JONDO, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Segovia says lorca was killed
Last Line: Homosexuals die violent deaths, segovia %says, playing a bach fugue on his guitar
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CHINESE, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All %those %fa %ces
Last Line: Age %to %the %wise
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CHORNA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tembandumba, now an elder
Last Line: Time and time and time and time again!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


COMMONWEALTH, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: No, not yet, no, not yet
Last Line: Options, maybe then, hope
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


COMMONWEALTH. COMMON POVERTY, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A visitor comes from hungary as from outer space
Last Line: We, their future, have become what they most feared
Variant Title(s): Commonwealth, Common Povert
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CONFIANZUDA, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She touched me
Last Line: Parted and waiting %hour after dumb hour %while we in twilight %mourned
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


COPING SKILLS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said how sad it was
Last Line: I remember nothing
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CRAQUEAO, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Four and one half billion
Last Line: Seguro, y tu craqueao!'
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CRIOLLO STORY, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was drunk, sunday morning
Last Line: As we had serenaded the moon
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


CRY UNCLE, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say he was a revolutionary
Last Line: There's no one left to justify %his failure, to render his lifelong mission holy
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


DANCING, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll go out dancing
Last Line: We danced %the night %away
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


DIVORCE, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On saturdays her grandmother
Last Line: Whatever she has done, hoping %they'll forget that she must go
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


DON LUIS A. FERRE, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were no paintings
Last Line: One of his dreams had said, 'yes'
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ENCHULA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unfortunately, my new loves are
Last Line: Me tiene la vida enchula
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ENGLISH, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So %exquisite %general %overtones
Last Line: Growth %of %the %world
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ESQUINA DUDE, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like and dislike, like the good
Last Line: You know exactly what I mean, gracias
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


FAITH, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when I witness the blindness of faith
Last Line: When I least expect it, stuns me %with a right hook to the eye of reason
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


FIELD DAY, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red-tailed hawk on the meadow by
Last Line: Can snare the senses, stir a woman's %envy, a man's unswerving thirst
Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri; Puerto Ricans - New York City


FIRE, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire broke out in 1b, the garden
Last Line: But my grandmother and I were ready- %as ready as we would ever be
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


FLORA, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The caterpillar makes itself a dress
Subject(s): Books; History; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 1, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A brown towhee nudges us awake with its song
Last Line: Still lazy from sleep. Feel %drafts from an open door glaze %my skin with the scent of pinon
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 2, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am in an adobe womb about to be born
Last Line: Worship its bark, pray at its roots: %it yields words
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 3, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light makes fools of us
Last Line: Only to catch a glimpse of myself %in a shiny car fender %asclown
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 4, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night I am in my rights. Days
Last Line: I am condemned to recreate %the cursive shadows of the sun, coaxing thought %across the bleached pul
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 5, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday afternoon the mountains
Last Line: Time to take stock, put it all together- %sandhya on sandia-ya es dia
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 6, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this room I can see the world
Last Line: My life, long a solar eclipse, %is destined for the good side of the moon
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GRAFFITERS, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the near %distant future
Last Line: Remembered for %whatever else %emerged'
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GRAFFITO, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning I had my first flying dream
Last Line: Last night described his first kill, %his first feast of dove
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


GREEK, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Looking to find modern mythology
Last Line: Twenty-four hours a day %in new york
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


HE 2-104: A TRUE PLANETARY NEBULA IN THE MAKING, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the universal clock, sagan tells us
Last Line: Blaze as one across the southern skies- %no longer crab but butterfly
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


IN THE DARK BACKWARD, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How is it I was not raised
Last Line: Children, like windswept echoes from %a ghost ship, could free my grief?
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


INTELLECTUAL, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So historically total
Last Line: And be dead %from the start
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


IRISH, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: March song %bobby sands irish land
Last Line: To free ireland
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ISLANDIS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the taste of the
Last Line: Wearing crowns of %bird gone feathers
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel


ITALIAN, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Young dude %is old dude
Last Line: So always always sing %please, blue eyes
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


JAMAICAN, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reach their guts into the caribbean
Last Line: Good, yeah, real good!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


JAPANESE, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was ten years old in 1942
Last Line: Had he thought the japanese %had won the war
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


JEWISH, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We stand the pain of time
Last Line: But never, never, again
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


JIBARO, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: End of spring harvest
Last Line: And then, the song, %cancion
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LATCHKEY KID, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Instead of butterscotch caramels
Last Line: She turns on the light %it casts a shadow across her life
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LEARNING MY NAME, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have a dialogue, this tree and I
Last Line: I heard my name
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 1, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a good old-fashioned
Last Line: Gold for the holy faith, %gold for the glory of spain
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 2, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The darkness of the mines
Last Line: Into themselves like secrets %whispered only in the safety %of brown arms
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 3, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wrecked vessel washed ashore
Last Line: Splashes of blood- %blooming all over the island
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LETTERS FROM MY SISTER, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mi querida hermanita, she'd begin
Last Line: The same nose, the same sad eyes, %the same big smiles
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


LICENCIADO DON PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like the year eighteen ninety-eight
Last Line: Forever imbedded in our souls
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


M'IJA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been dying to call you m'ija
Last Line: A ti todo, para eso somos amigas
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MALCRIADA, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Te voy a dar una paliza, muchacha
Last Line: Into his vest pocket, and gives me %two new pennies for an eskimo pie
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MESA BLANCA (1), by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I were writing on rock
Last Line: To lick the invisible %generations
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Language; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


MOVING PICTURES, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I see in movie stills
Last Line: A close-up of the hand remains. %hard. Seamed. Like a mannequin's
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MY FATHER, ON THE OTHER HAND, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, on the other hand, did
Last Line: From the deep. Yet I remain curiously %inviolate: he cannot pierce my heart
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MY LIFE AS A BOOK OF FICTION, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With my aunt will die the secrets
Last Line: With errors, omissions, dangerous %legends and, before long,addenda- %left to me, a total stranger
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


MY MOTHER CUNNING, YET INNOCENT, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not knowing then, no, not yet knowing - %trusting her to be mine forever
Variant Title(s): My Mother Cunning Yet Innocen
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


NEW YORK CITY MIRA MIRA BLUES, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the freeway you can almost
Last Line: A shroud of down, stilling, if only %for a moment, the island's screams
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City


NUYORICAN LAMENT, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: San juan you're not for me
Last Line: Listening for a song- %a wisp of song- %that begs deep in my heart
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


ORPHANS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my father died, leaving me
Last Line: We thrive on luck, she said, %there is no father's love in that
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


OTHER ISLAND, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, listen, for a moment! Listen
Last Line: And I, bare and barely stirring, %in this new york city taxi heading west
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


OUT OF BOUNDS IN KANSAS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These days I live in a treehouse
Last Line: From our high perch, had not the ocean %beckoned to him-as it does me-to come home
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


PANA, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was in jail, brother. Jail, brother
Last Line: You know why, bro, porque %ese tipo es mi pana
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


POLITICAL, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm pushed, I'm being pushed, pushed
Last Line: And I made a citizen's arrest
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


POPULAR, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Limbo %limping in circles
Last Line: Man carousel, turning like the %old man carousel
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


PORTO RICO, by GEORGE E. BOWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the soft blue waves of the southern sea
Last Line: That is what it seems to be.
Subject(s): Freedom; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; South Sea Islands; Liberty


PRACTITIONER, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was my grandfather who fed me
Last Line: My grandmother soothed me, but it was %my grandfather who kept me alive
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


PRAYER, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Padre nuesto
Last Line: The inner light eternal- %ly dimmed like %a wasted bulb %in the spirit's %socket %ah men
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


PSYCHOMACHIA, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old woman, you took so long in dying
Last Line: To meet on that unlabeled plain: I %to cradle you, you to teach me pain
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


REVOLUTIONARY, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It %is %no %myth
Last Line: Love %knows %no %compromise
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


RUSSIAN, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: She scraped the church floor
Last Line: She polished fourteen carat chalices
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


S & M, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The masochist confesses that his pain
Last Line: Even if I have to be ... %what is that word they used? %even if I have to be ... A sadist.'
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Latin America - History; Protest, Social; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Tyranny And Tyrants


SAILOR SUIT, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She tells him how when she is hurt
Last Line: He tells her she can throw away %her sailor suit forever
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 1. MONTE DE LAS PIEDRAS ROSAS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a pinon tree outside
Last Line: The whole tree shuddered %and, a breath later, it is bare
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 2. LOS ALAMOS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why the name? Not a poplar in sight
Last Line: They do not wave as we drive by
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 3. PROMESAS, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To el santuario de chimayo
Last Line: The light outside is blinding
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 4. CHIMAYO, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dog ambles across the empty dusty road
Last Line: I am the bear that comes at nightfall %to greet the new moon%soy india, soy mexicana %soy mujer %soy
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City


SANTA FE JOURNEY: 5. RETURN TO THE CITY OF HOLY FAITH, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Signs back to santa fe are incongruous
Last Line: Tucked resolutely beneath his arm- %defying windmills, imperialism, death. Away!
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


SPANISH, by TATO LAVIERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your language outlives your world power
Last Line: I'm gonna fight for you, I love you, spanish, %I'm your humble son
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


VISITING DAY AT SCHOOL, by GLORIA VANDO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother is sitting on a swing
Last Line: I want to go to her, claim her, %but there is no room for me, no room
Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City


YJUANAS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's not an iguana that isn't drawn up
Last Line: A place that can never be told in words
Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Reptiles