Tato Laviera

Tato Laviera
Born	1951 Puerto Rico
Occupation	poet
Literary movement	Nuyorican

Tato Laviera (born 1951) is a Nuyorican poet. Born in Puerto Rico, he moved to New York City with his family in 1960.

Laviera's poetry, which is written sometimes in Spanish, sometimes in English, more often in Spanglish, addresses language, cultural identity, race, and memory, particularly as it affects the transculturated lives of Puerto Ricans in the United States.

Scholar William Luis describes Laviera's work as follows: "His poetry is full of the music of bomba and plena, and of rap and preaching. However, it is also socially minded and historical in content. Indeed, his poems are a conglomeration of voices, songs, dialects and cultures producing a unique synthesis which is moving, instructive, and aesthetically appealing".^[1]

Contents 1 List of works 2 Notes 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

List of works

• La Carreta Made a U-Turn (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1979)
• AmeRícan (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1985)
• Enclave (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1985)
• Mainstream Ethics-Etica Corriente (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1988)
• Mixturao and Other Poems (Houston: Arte Público Press, 2008-09)

Notes

See also

• List of Puerto Rican writers
• List of Famous Puerto Ricans
• Puerto Rican literature

References

• Luis, William (Autumn, 1992), "From New York to the World: An Interview With Tato Laviera", Callaloo 15 (4): 1022–1033, doi:10.2307/2931917, JSTOR 2931917 . (JSTOR subscription required to access article online.)

External links

• Biography from the Heath Anthology of American Literature

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Name	Laviera, Tata
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Date of birth	1951
Place of birth	Puerto Rico
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