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Panoramas
Reviews
Ray Gonzalez:
"From [Cruz's] native Puerto Rico to the continent of a million streets, his voice has been heard. As poetry influences how we step into the next century, Cruz's poems will be some of the first we read on the other side."
Alice Notley:
"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."
Washington Post Book World:
"A charming and easily digested blend of prose remembrances, new poems (in both Spanish and English), and insightful essays about Latin American literature."
Cover:
"Why read poetry, when you can taste it, touch it, smell it? Cruz's colors, skies, people and scents engage in a rhythmic dialogue between memories from his native town in rural Puerto Rico, and New York's Lower East Side . . tear[ing] down the bricks of his tenement buildings and expos[ing] the connective tissues of cross-cultural experience."
Rudolfo Anaya:
"In Panoramas we not only hear the music of Puerto Rico, we share sensually in all it has to offer. The fantastic imagery of these poems transports us to the magical heart of El Caribe. I packed my bags, I'm going."
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