Results for "Toro, Vincent"

A memorable debut collection that explores colonial and generational trauma.     In this striking debut, Dorsía Smith Silva explores the devastating effects of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, highlighting the natural world, the lasting impact of hurricanes, and the marginalization of Puert... Read More about In Inheritance of Drowning

“Virtuosic . . . one of our most talented and daring poets . . . Hivestruck crackles with Toro’s critical vision and dazzling wit.” —John Keene, National Book Award-winning author of Punks: New and Selected PoemsA poet whose work has focused on Puerto Rican and Latinx history and identity poses... Read More about Hivestruck (Penguin Poets)

A fluid, expansive new collection from a poet whose work "dazzles with [an] energetic exploration of the Puerto Rican experience in the new millennium" (NBC News)Puerto Rican poet Vincent Toro's new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the "tertulia") and revises... Read More about Tertulia (Penguin Poets)

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. No simple tourist trip, no three-hour tour, Vincent Toro's carefully-structured STEREO.ISLAND.MOSAIC. draws the reader into lived experience of culture. Confronted with Puerto Rico, other Americans--Leonard Bernstein in West Side Story--often declare the island 'exotic... Read More about Stereo. Island. Mosaic.