Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry

Galleys available upon request Co-op available National Print Campaign: General interest: Bomb, LA Times, NYTBR, Harper's, Bookforum, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, SF Chronicle, Miami Herald, New Yorker among others Trade publications: PW, Library Journal, and Booklist Latin America, world lit & translation interest: Complete Review, Context Magazine, Two Lines, Three Percent, Translation Review, World Literature Today, Latin American Voices, Latin American Review of Books, Latino Magazine, Palabra Magazine, Review: Literature & Art of the Americas, The Americas Online (Blog) Campaign: Pursue reviews in: Full Stop Mag, Guernica, Little Star, Molossus, Quarterly Conversation, Words Without Borders Social Media Campaign: Promotion via City Lights social media: City Lights Blog, City Lights Podcast, CL Facebook (26K likes), CL Twitter (57K followers), CL Instagram (1500 followers), CL Tumblr (1000 followers), CL Pinterest (1000 followers) Frequent tweets and Facebook posts related to Pedro Pietri's place in literature history and his legacy, as well as info about the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. A blog feature and excerpt of the book and a podcast with an interview and a subsequent reading at City Lights Bookstore. Excerpts in: Will pursue translation & world lit journals: eXchanges Journal of Literary Translation (University of Iowa), Metamorphoses (Smith College), Asymptote (dedicated to lit translation) Endorsements: Already have endorsements from Amiri Baraka, Junot Diaz, Ishmael Reed, Jayne Cortez, and Sandra Cisneros - add to that an upcoming endorsement form Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Tribute Tour: Because Pietri was so influential to Latino writers and performance-based poetry in general, there will be tribute readings of his work and others he influenced in New York City and Los Angeles. Will pursue Ishmael Reed, Junot Diaz, as well as a young crop of performers who read Pietri.

Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry is a compelling and humorous collection of poems by the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Poets."There was no one in this country as ferocious, as brilliant, or as necessary as Pedro Pietri. In these days of growing inequality it is to his rebel vision I turn to for hope and for strength. A towering poet, absolutely peerless, explosively talented, a pioneer, and iconoclast, and activist, to whom the entire spoken word movement owes a debt beyond calculation."--Junot Diaz "One of the great American poets of the twentieth century, a leader of the Nuyorican poetry movement that ignited at Miguel Algarin's Nuyorican Poet's Cafe. Perhaps the most progressive and at the same time funniest poet of the period."--Amiri Baraka Pedro Pietri's often playfully absurd poems chronicle the joys and struggles of Nuyoricans--urban Puerto Ricans whose lives straddle the islands of Puerto Rico and Manhattan--and define the Latino experience in urban America. By turns angry, heartbreaking, and hopeful, his writings are imbued with a sense of pride and nationalism and were embraced by the generation of Latino poets that followed him. Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry gathers the most enduring and treasured work among his published books, Puerto Rican Obituary, Traffic Violations, and Out of Order, along with a generous selection of his previously unpublished works. Pedro Pietri (1944--2004) was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raised in Manhattan. In the early '70s he was a featured poet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Juan Flores (1943-2014) was a professor and director of Latino Studies at New York University, and author of many books on Puerto Rican and Latino culture. Pedro Lopez Adorno is a professor in the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies of Hunter College since 1987, and a published poet.