Maraca
Poetry by Victor Hernández Cruz
October 1, 2001 • 7 x 10 • 300 pages • 978-1-56689-122-6
A colorful, percussive collection spanning thirty-five years.
At the age of nineteen Victor Hernández Cruz exploded onto the national poetry scene with his dazzling debut, Snaps. Maraca: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000 is a sumptuous collection representing over thirty-five years of poetic evolution from one of America’s most exhilarating poets, featuring work from long out-of-print works, including Papo Got His Gun, Snaps, Mainland, Tropicalization, By Lingual Wholes, and Rhythm, Content & Flavor.
About the Author
Victor Hernández Cruz is the author of several collections of poetry including The Mountain in the Sea and In the Shadow of Al-Andalus. Featured in Bill Moyers’s Language of Life series, Cruz’s collection Maraca was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall and Griffin Poetry Prizes. He divides his time between Morocco and his native Puerto Rico.
Reviews
“A fluent sensualist and rhythmic stylist. . . . [Cruz] is often invoked as a revered forerunner and seminal influence on the Nuyorican poetry movement.” —Washington Post
“Wit, insight, and faith in the survival of a human universe combine.” —Anselm Hollo
“Tough, lyrical, rhythmic, lush, dead-pan funny and dead-pan beautiful.” —Jessica Hagedorn
“What would be treacle in the hands of lesser souls in quirky and utterly lovely in Cruz’s.” —Voice Literary Supplement
Description
Poetry by Victor Hernández Cruz
October 1, 2001 • 7 x 10 • 300 pages • 978-1-56689-122-6
A colorful, percussive collection spanning thirty-five years.
At the age of nineteen Victor Hernández Cruz exploded onto the national poetry scene with his dazzling debut, Snaps. Maraca: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000 is a sumptuous collection representing over thirty-five years of poetic evolution from one of America’s most exhilarating poets, featuring work from long out-of-print works, including Papo Got His Gun, Snaps, Mainland, Tropicalization, By Lingual Wholes, and Rhythm, Content & Flavor.
About the Author
Victor Hernández Cruz is the author of several collections of poetry including The Mountain in the Sea and In the Shadow of Al-Andalus. Featured in Bill Moyers’s Language of Life series, Cruz’s collection Maraca was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall and Griffin Poetry Prizes. He divides his time between Morocco and his native Puerto Rico.
Reviews
“A fluent sensualist and rhythmic stylist. . . . [Cruz] is often invoked as a revered forerunner and seminal influence on the Nuyorican poetry movement.” —Washington Post
“Wit, insight, and faith in the survival of a human universe combine.” —Anselm Hollo
“Tough, lyrical, rhythmic, lush, dead-pan funny and dead-pan beautiful.” —Jessica Hagedorn
“What would be treacle in the hands of lesser souls in quirky and utterly lovely in Cruz’s.” —Voice Literary Supplement
