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La Bodega Sold Dreams
"La Bodega Sold Dreams mixes ghetto invective and a feverish sentimentality, machismo swagger, and its reverse, a soft quality that is inadmissible to life except in art and has no proper name".
-- Village Voice
-- Village Voice
"After nearly ten years of reciting his poems on street comers, in bars and cafes, this is Pinero's first collection of poems. And they are powerful".
- GenresPoetry
48 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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Miguel Piñero
11 books25 followersMiguel Piñero (December 19, 1946–June 18, 1988) was a Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
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February 5, 2009
Very hardcore and outdated but still very relevant in present time.
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