Jack Agüeros

Jack Agüeros

Infobox writer


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Jack Agüeros (born 1934 in East Harlem) is a community activist, poet, writer, and translator. He is also a former Director of the Museo del Barrio in New York City.

Agüeros's "work deals with the complexities, challenges, and struggles of the Puerto Rican experience in America." [ [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/298 Poets.org] ]

Publications

* Lord, Is This a Psalm? (Hanging Loose Press, 2002)
* Sonnets from the Puerto Rican (1996)
* Dominoes & Other Stories from the Puerto Rican (1993)
* Correspondence Between Stonehaulers (1991)
* Editor, Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming American (Dial, 1992)
* Translator, Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (Curbstone Press, 1996)

ee also

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

References

External links

* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/298 Biography] at poets.org


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