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Summary: Unbelievable
Review: I enjoyed the langauge and prose, the forms the content, and most of all I enjoyed the love, and pain that poured out of every word. This is a great anthology and will complete all collections of poetry!
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Summary: Smarter
Review: I enjoyed the langauge and prose, the forms the content, and most of all I enjoyed the love, and pain that poured out of every word. This is a great anthology and will complete all collections of poetry!
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Summary: Beautiful and blunt
Review: I love this book! It made laugh and cry. I was running around like mad reading poems out of this book to everyone. It represents irony, pain and the truth that comes along with life. Most of all, it shows that poetry is a living, breathing art form that adapts to life and reflects the times. There is hardly ever rhyme or measure and sometimes meanings don't come to you the first time you read it, but it's refreshing break from the norm.
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Summary: Beautiful and blunt
Review: I love this book! It made laugh and cry. I was running around like mad reading poems out of this book to everyone. It represents irony, pain and the truth that comes along with life. Most of all, it shows that poetry is a living, breathing art form that adapts to life and reflects the times. There is hardly ever rhyme or measure and sometimes meanings don't come to you the first time you read it, but it's refreshing break from the norm.
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Summary: this book
Review: I think this book was the best book of poetry i have ever read. It made you have an understanding of different cultures and it conveyed emotions straight, without providing a hidden meaning.
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Summary: beautiful, honest, beautiful, beatific
Review: i was shocked by the enormous beauty contained in the words - the simple english, spanish, or hybrid mixture words - how much emotion, how much skin and sweat can be placed within them. i am a poetry fan, but what i like is particular and peculiar. the poetry in this book speaks to and about human beings in the honest, skin-blood-bones-organs-nerves way that i feel has not been captured since the Beats. while i love sylvia plath, this poetry contains none of the almost ascetic, sterile, abstraction of most poetry, poetry like how you think "british" when you think poetry. this is tactile poetry, and though one may not personally relate to the writer, one would hope (I would hope) that the reader can relate to the words as they are placed, the emotion invoked and evoked by the words-plus-tone, by the very act of those very particular words placed together to create this poetry. this is where appreciation lies. this is where poetry is. this is turning feeling and thought and experience into sounds and words - into poetry.
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Summary: One of The Best Anthologies Around
Review: I would say that Miguel Algarin's "Aloud" and Roberto Santiago's "Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings" are the two best books that will give the average reader an complete understanding of the impact that Puerto Rican artists have made on the literary scene. "Aloud" in particular shows how it was responsible for the birth and popularity of the spoken word, which grew from Puerto Ricans. The poems in "Aloud" are so good. Algarin has chosen the best of the best and has showcased them to the world. Add this and "Boricuas" to your library.
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Summary: Almost like being there.
Review: If you've never been to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, GO ! It is a true paradox - a vibrant dive. Outside and in, it's an un-assuming place to the eye. Most nights of the week, though, people are blazing new artistic trails inside its walls. New music acts, comedy troupes and artists have found a helping hand and a friendly home at the Cafe. But the poetry slams held there are the true heart of the revolution it plays home to. This is a nice collection. If you appreciate words and poetry, there is no shortage of things to enjoy here. And when you compare the volume of material to the price, it's a fair exchange. However, there is no substitute for a visit to the Cafe. Next time you're in NY, find your way there. You won't be sorry.
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Summary: Poetry at its finest
Review: In Aloud Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Cafe tons of poets came together and made an incredible book, many different races, cultures religions even languages, from skin heads to mothers, spanish people to africans, hermits, to loud mouths this whole book was great.
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Summary: Poetry as Language
Review: Just last year, Miguel Algarin visited the campus of the University of Florida and performed some poetry for us. I never really understood poetry in high school, but that's because I was never exposed to such a book as Aloud and the style of the poetry slams.
This book begs to be performed and shared. The verses sing, scream, coerce and laugh off of the pages. I love the idea of "poetry as language" and hope there will be much more to come from the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe. Poetry's not dead after all.
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