Puerto Rican Obituary

By Pedro Pietri

Book Overview

Modern Reader Trade Paperback with 108 + pages, size: 8 x 5 1/2". Poetry - The poems are drums. And drums are the tools of magicians...Piertri is a very social poet. There are no love poems here,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853453004
• ISBN13: 9780853453000
• Release Date: February 1974
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

El Reverendo De La Iglesia De La Madre De Los Tomates

Pedro Pietri passed away on a cloud...literally. He was on a flight over Texas when he died. I'm sure that was how he wanted it. He was not born in the U.S. and so he did not die on the U.S. He passed on in mid-flight as if born to the clouds. OBITUARIOS is a truly great Poem. To call it a Poem does not really do it justice. It is an epitaph, an homage to the postwar migration of thousands of Puerto Rican Nationals who believed in the American Dream. This little book needs to be read. It not only represents the ideologies defining the Nuyorican experience, but it also continues the tradition begun by Beat poet greats such as Kerouac and Ginsberg. Pedro called himself El Reverendo de La Iglesia De La Madre De Los Tomates (Reverend of the Church of the Mother of the Tomatoes). I never quite understood what he meant, but I guess that he was poking fun at himself. Although Pedro's poetry was filled with humor, it was also full of the dark frustration that defined the Puerto Rican experience living in New York City. Some of his prose can sound preachy, but always full of hope and crystal clear realism. It is irony that permeates the larger part of his poetry, and where there is humor it was always as a mask to cover the tears of the unfulfilled dreams of each and every individual who felt he had no voice. I think Pedro fulfilled his dreams, in spite of himself. He has given us a symbol of Truth, and Perserverence in the form of his Art. I believe that one day soon we will see a School or a University, or a Library with EL REVERENDOs name at the top of it. It's the least they could do. In the meantime would someone PLEASE publish a new edition of this important book so that the rest of us can learn from the words of one of our greatest American Poets. We Love You, Pedro...

hilarious puerto rican poet

THIS BOOK WAS EXTREMELLY DELIGHTFUL, ENJOYABLE, FUNNY OH MY GOODNESS FUNNY, OUTSTANDING POETRY.PEDRO HAD ME IN AWE, WITH HIS MIND AND THE ABILITY TO PUT ALL THIS IN A BOOK.IT WAS SO FASCINATING TO READ OVER AND OVER AGAIN.I KNOW THIS BOOK IS OUT-OF PRINT BUT TRY TO RENT IN A LIBRARY, U WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.PEDRO PIETRI IS AND OUTSTANDING AUTHOR, POET, COMEDIAN, WRITER AND MOST OF ALL HUMAN BEING.