Outlaw : the collected works of Miguel Angel Piñero

Outlaw : the collected works of Miguel Angel Piñero

  • Autor: Piñero, Miguel
  • Editor: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558856066
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611925135
  • Lugar de publicación:  Houston , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación: 2010
  • Páginas: 416

“A thief, a junkie I’ve been / committed every known sin,” Miguel Piñero sings in “A Lower East Side Poem.” Part observer, part participant in the turbulent goings-on in his Nuyorican barrio, Miguel Piñero blasted onto the literary scene and made waves in the artistic current with his dramatic interpretations of the world around him through experimental poetry, prose, and plays. 
Portrayed by actor Benjamin Bratt in the 2001 feature film Piñero, the poet’s works are as rough and gritty as the New York City underworld he wrote about and loved.  “So here I am, look at me / I stand proud as you can see / pleased to be from the Lower East / a street fighting man / a problem of this land / I am the Philosopher of the Criminal Mind / a dweller of prison time / a cancer of Rockefeller’s ghettocide / this concrete tomb is my home.” His depictions of pimp bars, drug addiction, petty crime, prison culture and outlaw life—all drawn from first-hand experience—astound the faint-hearted, as Piñero poetizes an outlaw vernacular meant to shock proper, bourgeois culture.
This long-awaited collection includes previously published and never-before-published poems; ten plays, including Short Eyes, which was later made into a film and won the 1973-1974 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, The Sun Always Shines for the Cool, and Eulogy for a Small Time Thief. 
 A co-founder of the Nuyorican Poet’s Café, Piñero died at the age of 41, leaving behind a compelling legacy of poetry and plays that reveal the harsh, impoverished lives of his urban Puerto Rican community. 

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • La bodega sold dreams
    • La Bodega Sold Dreams
    • A Lower East Side Poem
    • The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito
    • This Is Not the Place Where I Was Born
    • Black Woman with the Blond Wig On
    • Jitterbugging Jesus
    • Kill, Kill, Kill
    • Running Scared
    • Seekin’ the Cause
    • La Cañonera del Mundo
    • Spring Garden—Philadelphia
    • Cocaine Nose—Acid Face
    • Visitin’ a Friend at the Cold Shop
    • On the Lock-In
    • On the Day They Buried My Mother . . .
    • La gente que no se quiere pa’ na’ con la lengua
    • The Menudo of a Cuchifrito Love Affair
    • New York City Hard Times Blues
  • Previously unpublished poems from the cycle of la bodega sold dreams
    • Obreras
    • Declaration 1968
    • Bastard Streets
    • Transtime Meditation
    • A Latin Trip
    • Windy Music Screams Profanity
    • Vente Conmigo
    • Guy Lombardo—Back in Town
    • A Carnival perpetual inconscient commentary poem
    • Perhaps Tomorrow
    • A Step Toward Insanity
    • Mango Dreams
  • Other previously unpublished poems
    • The Lower East Side Is Taking . . .
    • And then Come Freedom to Dream
    • Antarctica
    • The Answer
    • To-get-her
    • Where Do the Colors . . .
    • The High Don’t Equal the Low
    • Rerun of “The Ballad of the Freaks”
  • Plays
    • Paper toilet
    • Cold beer
    • The guntower
    • Irving
    • Sideshow
    • Tap dancing and Bruce Lee kicks
    • Short eyes
      • Glossary of slang
    • The sun always shines for the cool
    • Midnight moon at the greasy spoon
    • Eulogy for a small time thief
  • Afterword

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