Description

In the Walt Whitman's and Federico Garc a Lorca's tradition of celebratory poems to New York City, U RK is a poetry book that celebrates the city of New York and its people. In it, the city, addressed by the poet-narrator, is in itself a language construction, the clash of English and Spanish embodied in the Latin American immigrant experience, as well as the intermingling of the literary heritages of both languages, from Rub n Dar o and Jos Kozer to William Carlos Williams and Susan Howe, among others.