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Pietri, Pedro, 1944-2004

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1944 March 21 - 2004 March 3

Nationality

Puerto Rican

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Out of Order / Pietri, Pedro., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-55566-9999190
Scope and Contents Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944 -- March 3, 2004), was a Nuyorican poet and playwright who co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He was the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Movement.Internet: Out of Order / Out of Service comprises 330 compositions that express the complex vision of the world of the poet-performer Pedro Pietri. The collection is divided into seven sections. "To write a poem" includes the lines that have at their center the reflection (smitizzante and surrealist) to make poetry. "Forget logic" leads us beyond the mirror of normal daily life in the universe upside down and absurdist poet. "Because I love you" is composed of a sequence of letters and declarations of love disenchanted, sometimes cynical and bitter, always refused to violence with violence of sentimentality and pathos. "Tremble the night" makes us partakers of nocturnal dimension, dreamlike, visionary Pietri, where plans and prospects are systematically and methodically challenged and overturned. "In this...
Dates: 2001