The picaresque, smart, and smartass memoir of Harvard lawyer Eddie Loperena’s Newyorican life in “the country I was offered.”
“Beaming with profound truths dressed in satire, sarcasm, and …humor…”
Posted: 23 February 2020 in Recent Publications0
- Home
- Author’s Bio
- Fiction
- Novels
- Novel: The Bonjour Gene
- Don’t Let Me Die in Disneyland: The 3-D Life of Eddie Loperena
- “Relays political notions of racial and social identity through a smart, sympathetic, and laudable lead.”–KIRKUS REVIEWS
- Online Book Club -“The author’s way with words and captivating writing style in vividly imaging places, characters, and events made for quite an evocative read.”
- ✯✯✯✯½ – Goodreads
- “This was a witty and entertaining read and kudos to the author for a story cleverly woven together.” – Literary Jewels
- “People who enjoy reading about the US and its politics and all its issues with an air of grittiness will get much enjoyment out of this book..”–Bookmarks and Stages
- Short Fiction
- Novels
- Nonfiction
- Essays
- “Walt Whitman, The Mall, or No Poetry for Old Men” – Pennsylvania Literary Journal
- “Pablo Neruda’s Dilemma”
- “Harvard Patrols the Border”
- “The Art of Being Richard Rodriguez”
- “Does Your Child Speak Another Language at Home? Reflections of a Bilingual American”
- “The Poetry and Anti-Poetry of Luis Palés Matos: From Canciones to Tuntunes”
- On “The Red Wheelbarrow”
- Poetry
- Book: The Glue Trap and Other Poems
- BOOK: Translations without Originals: Poems by Julio Marzán
- BOOK: Selected Poems/Poesía Selecta: Luis Palés Matos
- BOOK: Inventing a Word: Twentieth-Century Puerto Rican Poetry
- In Anthologies
- In College Texts
- In Magazines/Journals
- TOC
- “Strong Wind”
- “Ode”
- “The Old Man”
- “David Koresh among the Angels”
- “Foreign Heart”
- “Graduation Day”
- “Epitaph”
- “Ethnic Poetry”
- “Arresting Beauty”
- “The Pure Preposition”
- “Tom, Dick, and Sally”
- “Reverend Ewing Sends Compasión Magazine”
- “Reflections in Stalled Traffic” for David Ignatow
- “Grand Central Station”
- En Español
- Press
- “But the actual poet laureate was even more insanely talented…”
- “Master of Words” : Q Culture
- Daily News – Poet Laureate’s Ode to Queens
- Newsday – Laureate Eyes Language
- Queens Tribune – “Man from Nowhere”
- Queens Chronicle: Little Neck Professor Named Poet Laureate
- Man “from Nowhere” is New Queens Poet Laureate
- Media Bistro: in New York At the Gemini Lounge, 06.10.03
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Writings – Site Guide
- “People who enjoy reading about the US and its politics and all its issues with an air of grittiness will get much enjoyment out of this book..”–Bookmarks and Stages
- “Relays political notions of racial and social identity through a smart, sympathetic, and laudable lead.”–KIRKUS REVIEWS
- “This was a witty and entertaining read and kudos to the author for a story cleverly woven together.” – Literary Jewels
- ✯✯✯✯½ – Goodreads
- Book: The Labyrinth of Multitude and Other Reality Checks on Being Latino/x
- NOVEL: Don’t Let Me Die in Disneyland: The 3-D Life of Eddie Loperena
- Press
- Queens Chronicle: Little Neck Professor Named Poet Laureate
- Novel: The Bonjour Gene
- Nonfiction
- Essays
- WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, AND THE ENIGMA OF IDENTITY
- BOOK: The Spanish American Roots of William Carlos Williams
- BOOK: Luna, Luna: Creative Writing Ideas from Spanish, Latin American, and Latino Literature: Edited by Julio Marzán
- BOOK: The Numinous Site: The Poetry of Luis Palés Matos
- “Harvard Patrols the Border”
- “Pablo Neruda’s Dilemma”
- “The Art of Being Richard Rodriguez”
- “Does Your Child Speak Another Language at Home? Reflections of a Bilingual American”
- “The Poetry and Anti-Poetry of Luis Palés Matos: From Canciones to Tuntunes”
- Poetry
- Book: The Glue Trap and Other Poems
- BOOK: Translations without Originals: Poems by Julio Marzán
- TOC
- BOOK: Puerta de Tierra (in Spanish)
- BOOK: Selected Poems/Poesía Selecta: Luis Palés Matos
- BOOK: Inventing a Word: Twentieth-Century Puerto Rican Poetry
- In Anthologies
- In College Texts
- In Magazines/Journals
- TOC
- “Arresting Beauty”
- “Epitaph”
- “Ethnic Poetry”
- “Foreign Heart”
- “Graduation Day”
- “Grand Central Station”
- “Reflections in Stalled Traffic” for David Ignatow
- “Reverend Ewing Sends Compasión Magazine”
- “The Pure Preposition”
- “The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers”
- “The Translator at the Reception…” –in Harper’s Magazine
- “Tom, Dick, and Sally”
- “David Koresh among the Angels”
- “Ode”
- “The Old Man”
- “Strong Wind”
- En Español
- “…canny wit, critical intent, and sometimes mordant ironies…”
- “But the actual poet laureate was even more insanely talented…”
- Columbia – On the Road with the Poet Laureate… by Paul Hond
- Daily News – Poet Laureate’s Ode to Queens
- Media Bistro: in New York At the Gemini Lounge, 06.10.03
- Newsday – Laureate Eyes Language
- Queens Tribune – Man “from Nowhere” is New Queens Poet Laureate
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