Becoming Julia de Burgos

While it is rare for a poet to become a cultural icon, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States for over half a century.
 
In the first book-length study written in English, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos''s development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in N...