Red Beans
Victor Hernandez Cruz, “Red Beans” from Maraca: New and Selected Poems 1966-2000. Copyright © 2001 by Victor Hernandez Cruz. Reprinted by permission of Coffee House Press. www.coffeehousepress.org
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Poet Victor Hernández Cruz b. 1949
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Subjects Activities, Eating & Drinking
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Imagery, Metaphor
Biography
Victor Hernandez Cruz was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. He moved to New York City with his family when he was five years old, but he didn’t start learning English until two years later when his family bought a television set. He started writing poetry early and at seventeen self-published his first book, Papo Got His Gun! And Other Poems, on a mimeograph machine. Since then, more than a dozen collections of his poems—among . . .
Poems by Victor Hernández Cruz
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Activities, Eating & Drinking
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Imagery, Metaphor
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