Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe ed. by Miguel Algarín and Bob Holman

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Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe ed. by Miguel Algarín and Bob HolmanFrom New York to Nashville, Boston to L. A., a bohemian rhapsody of rap swagger is spreading across the land. As the New York Observer writes: The poetry corpse is stirring, its healing heart is a big, dark, brick walled loft on Third Street and Avenue C called the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Its democratic, multiculturalsometimes funny, sometimes ribald. It has the vitality of vulgarity.

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