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In Tato Laviera"s third collection, poems celebrate the array of stripes and colors making up the American people. In the beginning section, "Ethnic Tributes, " Laviera crafts poems with titles like, "arab, " "black, " "chinese, " "greek, " "jamaican, " "spanish, " and "mundo-world. " In "boricua, " he fashions a timely plea for an end to prejudice, saying that for Puerto Ricans ". . . color is generally color-blind/with us, that"s our contribution, all/ the colors are tied/to our one. " The latter two sections of the collection, "Values" and "Politics" build on the themes of ethnic exchange and the...
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