{"product_id":"beneath-the-spanish-9781566894890","title":"Beneath the Spanish","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Victor Hernandez Cruz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - Hispanic American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePuerto Rico, California, New York, Morocco--these are songs of a poet's genesis, and the places that formed him.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeneath the Spanish\u003c\/i\u003e is history, the clash and melt of cultures, the conquest of the New World, colonialism, bilingualism, fragmentation, and cubism. Poems built of tobacco, sugar, caf�; Spanish, Arabic, English; Jos� Mart�, Federico Garc�a Lorca, and William Carlos Williams. A history and exploration of Hern�ndez Cruz's Caribbean roots as well as a documentation of and counterpoint to the origin of the European cultural intrusion into the New World, \u003ci\u003eBeneath the Spanish\u003c\/i\u003e deconstructs and reconstructs a wounded history, offering a prayer for communication between distances, oceans, music, dance, and mountains, revealing the past in the present moment we live.","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999577161879,"sku":"9781566894890","price":867.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781566894890.webp?v=1783601094","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/beneath-the-spanish-9781566894890","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}