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Abraham "Tato" Laviera (May 9, 1950 – November 1, 2013) was an acclaimed Nuyorican poet.〔. Note that other sources give his year of birth as 1951, and occasionally his date of birth as September 5. But the NYT obituarist reports that the date, May 9, 1950, was that provided by Laviera's family.〕 An obituary for NBC Latino describes him as "one of the greatest representatives of the Nuyorican movement." ==Life and Work== Born in Puerto Rico, Laviera moved to New York City with his family in 1960. He studied at Cornell University and Brooklyn College, but never graduated. He later became the director of the “University of the Streets,” as well as teaching at Rutgers University. Laviera's poetry, which is written sometimes in Spanish, sometimes in English, more often in Spanglish, addresses language, cultural identity, race, and memory, particularly as it affects the transculturated lives of Puerto Ricans in the United States. Scholar William Luis describes Laviera's work as follows: "His poetry is full of the music of ''bomba'' and ''plena'', and of rap and preaching. However, it is also socially minded and historical in content. Indeed, his poems are a conglomeration of voices, songs, dialects, and cultures producing a unique synthesis which is moving, instructive, and aesthetically appealing". Nicolás Kanellos's ''Hispanic Literature of the United States: A Comprehensive Reference'' describes him as "the inheritor of the Spanish oral tradition, with all of its classical formulas, and the African oral tradition, with its wedding to music and spirituality." Following some years of financial and health problems, Laviera died on November 1, 2013, from complications of diabetes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tato Laviera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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