Tato Laviera

Tato Laviera

Infobox writer


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Tato Laviera (born 1951) is a Nuyorican poet, was born in Puerto Rico but moved to New York in 1960.

Laviera's poetry addresses language (and is written sometimes in Spanish, sometimes in English, more often in Spanglish), cultural identity, race, and memory, particularly as it affects the transculturated lives of Puerto Ricans living in the USA.

Scholar William Luis describes Laviera's work as follows: "His poetry is full of the music of "bomba" and "plena", and of rap and preaching. However, it is also socially minded and historical in content. Indeed, his poems are a conglomeration of voices, songs, dialects and cultures producing a unique synthesis which is moving, instructive, and aesthetically appealing". [Harvnb|Luis|1992|p=1022]

List of works

* "La Carreta Made a U-Turn" (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1979)
* "AmeRícan" (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1985)
* "Enclave" (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1985)
* "Mainstream Ethics-Etica Corriente" (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1988)
* "Mixturao and Other Poems" (Houston: Arte Público Press, 2008)

Notes

References

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See also

*List of Puerto Rican writers
*List of famous Puerto Ricans
*Puerto Rican literature

External links

* [http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/laviera_ta.html Biography] from the "Heath Anthology of American Literature"


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