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Hiraldo, Carlos

 
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Synopsis

In this luminous first collection, Carlos Hiraldo knocks down the bland edifice of contemporary poetry and replaces it with real poems that resound and shock and illuminate. As Machu Picchu grows from the mountain, gathers itself stone by stone and bursts into the sky, so these poems take the stuff of life and raise up a new, vibrant city built on love, poverty, racism, sweetness, violence and all the manifold experiences of a son of immigrants grappling with the urban environment. Uniquely American yet universal, both personal and collective, Machu Picchu Me dramatizes what other works merely disclose--that individual experience forms the shared collective of humanity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Carlos Hiraldo is a professor of English within the City University of New York. He is the author of Segregated Miscegenation (2003) and several articles dealing with issues of race and class which have appeared in journals like About Campus, Asian American Law Journal, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College. His poems have also appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Arizona State University's Bilingual Review, and the British journal Other Poetry. A lifelong New Yorker, he currently lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife and their two sons.

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