Tato Laviera (1950–2013)
Auteur de AmeRícan
A propos de l'auteur
Tato Laviera was born Jesús Abraham Laviera on May 9, 1950, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He moved to the Lower East Side as a child. He attended Brooklyn College and Cornell University. Before becoming a full-time poet in the 1970s, he was a community organizer. His first collection, La Carreta Made afficher plus a U-Turn, was published in 1979. He was one of the best-known representatives of the Nuyorican school of poetry. During his lifetime, he published books, plays and poems including AmeRícan, Mixturao and Other Poems, and The King of Cans. After being in a coma since late January, he died from complications of diabetes on November 1, 2013 at the age of 63. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Tato Laviera
Oeuvres associées
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns (2019) — Contributeur — 71 exemplaires
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Laviera, Jesús Abraham
- Date de naissance
- 1950-05-09
- Date de décès
- 2013-11-01
- Sexe
- male
- Lieu de naissance
- Santurce, Puerto Rico
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Professions
- Poet
Playwright
Membres
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 66
- Popularité
- #259,059
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- ISBN
- 22
- Langues
- 1