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    Our Nuyorican Thing: The Birth of A Self-Made Identity
    Our Nuyorican Thing: The Birth of A Self-Made Identity
    Our Nuyorican Thing: The Birth of A Self-Made Identity
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    Our Nuyorican Thing: The Birth of A Self-Made Identity

    By Samuel Diaz Carrion

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    What is a “Nuyorican”? And what does it mean? Poet, writer and activist Samuel Diaz Carrion explores this question and more in OUR NUYORICAN THING. What started out as blog correspondence for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s website (2001-2004), quickly turned into a cultural exchange about the Cafe and Puerto Rican culture. OUR NUYORICAN THING is a compendium of those blog entries and emails that also include poetry and short prose, about the Nuyorican experience. OUR NUYORICAN THING is riveting, informative and delightful, and will satisfy any reader with a cultural appetite. With an Introduction by Urayoán Noel.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher2Leaf Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2014
    ISBN9781940939087
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      Our Nuyorican Thing - Samuel Diaz Carrion

      A compendium of emails, poetry and

      short prose about the Nuyorican experience

      by Samuel Diaz Carrion

      Introduction by Urayoán Noel

      with a Foreword by Clare Ultimo

      NUYORICAN WORLD SERIES

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      New York, New York 10163-4378

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      Intercultural Alliance of Artists &

      Scholars, Inc. (IAAS),

      a NY-based nonprofit 501(c)(3)

      organization that promotes

      multicultural literature and literacy.

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      OUR NUYORICAN THING: THE BIRTH OF A SELF-MADE IDENTITY, Copyright © 2014 Samuel Diaz Carrion. All rights reserved under international and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of this author's rights is appreciated. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in or introduced in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of both the copyright owner and 2LEAF PRESS, an imprint of the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), the publisher of this book, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles.

      Library of Congress Control Number:  2013953972

      Print Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-07-0

      ePub Edition, 978-1-940939-08-7

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      Published in the United States of America

      First Edition | First Printing

      Disclaimer:

      Note to the Reader

      Viewing this eBook at a higher than optimal text size will cause the reading experience to be altered considerably. Since eBooks are formatted as reflowable text and have to work on many different screens and devices, it is impossible to guarantee that the poems will display as the poet intended. As such, some of the lines will display as multiple lines of text. When this occurs, the turn of the line will be marked with a slight indent, prompting the reader that this is a continuation of a previous line. In order to read the poetry as it was written, we suggest that you read this book at the default font size on your device. Please note, that spacing of some of the poems were either truncated or eliminated to accommodate reflowable text format. Please refer to the print edition of this book for a more accurate rendering of the poetry.

      Credits

      Cover art and design: Clare Ultimo

      Author photo: Vagabond, http://nothingtobegainedhere.wordpress.com/

      Book design and layout: Gabrielle David, www.gabrielledavid.com

      Dedicatorium

      This collection of comments, notes, opinions

      (Our Nuyorican Thing) and poems, is dedicated to:

      My Father, Ramon C Diaz, who taught me the Word.

      My Mother, Lucila Carrion Rivera, who taught me Love of the Word.

      My Wife, Partner, Best Friend and Inspiration,

      Carmen M. Pietri who convinced me to put it in print.

      To all my Poets, Artists, Musicians and Workers

      who Labour to create, as Life does.

      Table of Contents

      Copyright Page

      Disclaimer: Note to the Reader

      Credits

      FOREWORD

      Sam Diaz, Nuyorican Things and Appreciation from an Italian-American

      PREFACE

      Before the Beginning

      INTRODUCTION

      Finding Our Nuyoricaness in Our Nuyorican Thing

      1. Prelude

      2. Words

      3. Words & Poetry, War & Peace!

      A Prayer for The Living

      Pledge of Allegiance

      4. The Cafe

      5. Definitions: Nuyoricans

      6. Who/What/Labels

      7. Originals

      It’s About

      Eat rocks

      Happy Birthday, Miguel

      8. Comments

      9. Piñero, the Film

      10. Origins: Imagine

      11. Nuyoricans: Types/Tipos

      12. Spanglish 101

      Spanglish

      13. Nuyorican: A New Language

      14. More on Language

      15. Ancestral Native American Language and Traditions: Another Viewpoint

      16. Salute to the Nuyoricans

      Bimbo

      Ragged Edge

      17. Spanish: Romancing the Nuyorican

      18. Poetic Aside: Amiri Baraka

      19. Poetic Aside: Bienal de la Poesia

      Don’t Ask, I Won’t Tell You

      Poetry Never Dies

      Invisible Poem

      20. Poetic Aside: Slam News/Poetry on Broadway and a Happy New Year!

      21. Art and Community

      22. Who Owns Art?

      23. Time after Time

      24. What Silence Says About Art

      Silent Poem

      New Millennium Poets

      The Long Goodbye

      AFTER :: WORDS

      ABOUT THE POET

      ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

      OTHER BOOKS BY 2LEAF PRESS

      FOREWORD

      Sam Diaz, Nuyorican Things and

      Appreciation from an Italian-American

      SAM DIAZ ALWAYS REMINDED ME OF an anthropologist (a Puerto Rican Indiana Jones type with his trademark hat and spectacles too), but instead of fossils and carbon dating, he was quietly studying the trade route of a new language as it moved from one country to another, collecting poetry and stories as the artifacts of the day. He always seemed to be on a quest to reveal the deeper strata hidden beneath appearances. With Our Nuyorican Thing: The Birth of a Self-Made Identity, Sam helps us to understand the foundation and true meaning of what it means to be Nuyorican.

      Before I ever met Sam, the term Nuyorican was attached to a space, a location where I reawakened a precious part of myself as an artist. In 1993, when I first walked through the door at 236 East Third Street for the Friday Open Mic, I thought I heard a whisper in the room say this is your home and I actually laughed out loud nervously at what

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