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Red
Beans
Reviews
Publishers Weekly Book of the Year
Jessica Hagedorn:
"Tough, lyrical, rhythmic, lush, dead-pan funny and dead-pan beautiful—Red Beans is about the tropicalization and revitalization of the English language . . . it is filled with magical visions."
The New York Times Book Review:
"Bilingual since childhood, Mr. Cruz writes poems about his native Puerto Rico and elsewhere which often speak to us with a forked tongue, sometimes in a highly literate Spanglish . . . He's a funny, hard-edged poet, declining always into mother wit and pathos."
Publishers Weekly:
"In [Cruz's] inclusive imagination, Puerto Rican history connects with all history. . . . The result is the successful expansion of a perspective born in the Caribbean into a world view of striking vitality and importance."
San Francisco Review of Books:
"Red Beans represents an emergent American sensibility that anticipates changes in English . . . if you keep the blend of Spanish and English in Cruz's work waiting, you might find yourself left behind."
Library Journal:
"Like a traveler discovering a New World, this vigorous bilingual Latino troubadour's poems and essays are ‘a dance on the edges.'"
Artpaper:
"In Red Beans, Cruz dances like a wild energy in the reader's head."
Village Voice:
"Utterly lovely."
Bilingual Review:
"Subtly crafted and strongly moving."
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