Panoramas
Poems by Victor Hernández Cruz

"Panoramas's synthesis of prose and poetry, Spanish and English, New Yorkese and Puerto Rican, offers a surprisingly civilized and gracious tone, a different possibility for North America's future." –Alice Notley

The premier Puerto Rican poet of our day, Victor Hernández Cruz seeks out the most disparate images, ideas, and people from landscapes both tropical and urban, creating a unique North American contemporary poetic mode truly his own. With the power of a tropical storm and the heat of the sweltering sun, Cruz presents a bird's-eye view of the crisscrossing cultures in Latin America, the Caribbean, Los Angeles, and the Lower East Side.

Also Available by this Author:

• Maraca
• Red Beans
• The Mountain in the Sea

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