Tertulia, Vincent Toro
Tertulia, Vincent Toro
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Tertulia

Author: Vincent Toro

Narrator: Robert Ramirez

Unabridged: 2 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/02/2020


Synopsis

Vincent Toro’s new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the tertulia) and revises
it for the Latinx context in the United States. In verses dense with juxtaposition, these poems examine immigration,
economics, colonialism, and race via the sublime imagery of music, visual art, and history. Toro draws from his own
social justice work in various U.S. cities to create a kaleidoscopic vision of the connections between the personal
and the political, the local and the global, in a book that both celebrates and questions the complexities of the
human condition.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen on May 24, 2020

From "On Appropriation" "Grateful for the amnesty my crew bestowed me, I swore I would not recklessly unsheathe those syllables again, for love may prove to be unconditional, but it does not pardon those of us who trample over provinces for which we hold no title" (34).......more

Goodreads review by Moss on April 30, 2022

Well written and thought provoking. Would highly recommend.......more

Goodreads review by Monica on November 17, 2020

Great to listen to- like going to a poetry slam. I enjoyed the modern anecdotal poems, particularly the appreciation of the janitor and another on the strong character of his wife.......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on August 31, 2020

LOVED this collection.......more