Mongo Affair by Miguel Algarin - 1978

Nuyorican Press. Used - Good. Good condition. (puerto rican poetry) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

First Edition, Nuyorican Press, New York, 1978. Softcover in very good condition. Inscribed on front free end page.

New York: Nuyorican Press/Nuyorican Poet’s Café, Inc., 1978. First Edition. 122 pp. VG+ illustrated wraps. Illustrations by Sandra Maria Esteves; cover drawing by Fernando Salicrup; photos by Suzanne Karp Krebs. INSCRIBED by Algarin on ffep: “October 29, 1979 Marilyn, So I remember your upper New York [ ] when we left with a New England portrait tucked into our non-profit-status. M. Algarin.”  Algarin, who was born in Puerto Rico, taught at Rutgers for more than 30 years, but lived most of his life in New York, died in November 2020. He co-founded the Nuyorican Poet’s Café with Pedro Pietri, Miguel Pinero, and others in the early 1970s and is considered a foundational figure in the Nuyorican literary movement, a poet who had a “keen ear for the language of the street and the power of poetry performed live.” Algarin helped popularize the term “Nuyorican” which described “the bilingual, bicultural reboot of Puerto Rican-ness blossoming in the neighborhoods of New York.”  Mongo… Read More