Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano by Salas Rivera, Raquel
Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano by Salas Rivera, Raquel

Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano

Gold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Bilingual Poetry From the National Book Award-nominated,...
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Author: Raquel Salas Rivera
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Language: English
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Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano by Salas Rivera, Raquel

Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano

$31.31
Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano by Salas Rivera, Raquel

Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano

$31.31
Author: Raquel Salas Rivera
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Gold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Bilingual Poetry

From the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet: a powerful, inventive new collection that looks to the future of Puerto Rico with love, rage, beauty, and hope

Raquel Salas Rivera's star has risen swiftly in the poetry world, and this, his 6th book, promises to cement his status as one of the most important poets working today. In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English versions, antes que isla es volcán daringly imagines a decolonial Puerto Rico.

Salas Rivera unfurls series after series of poems that build in intensity: one that casts Puerto Rico as the island of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest, another that imagines a multiverse of possibilities for Puerto Rico's fate, a 3rd in which the poet demands his right to a future and its immediate distribution. The verses are rigorous and sophisticated, engaging with literary and political theory, yet are also hard-hitting, charismatic, and quotable ("won't you be sorry? / won't you wish you had a boss? / won't you get restless / with all that freedom?").

These poems tap unflinchingly into the explosive energy of the island, transforming it into protest, into spirit, into art.

Author: Raquel Salas Rivera
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780807014578


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2022 pg. 8
Publishers Weekly 05/23/2022
Library Journal 07/01/2022 pg. 69

About the Author
Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. His honors include being named the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia and receiving the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico's Festival de la Palabra. He is the author of five previous full-length poetry books. His third book, lo terciario/ the tertiary, won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award. His fourth book, while they sleep (under the bed is another country), was longlisted for the 2020 Pen America Open Book Award and was a finalist for CLMP's 2020 Firecracker Award. His fifth book, x/ex/exis, won the inaugural Ambroggio Prize. He currently writes and teaches in Puerto Rico.
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