Blurb for Immigrant
Dreams & Alien Nightmares
Torres-Tama, José. Immigrant
Dreams & Alien Nightmares. New
Orleans: Diálogos Books, 2014.
Immigrant
Dreams & Alien Nightmares is José Torres-Tama’s gift of fire, a rich
series of poems that admonish: Usted tiene que arreglar sus asuntos con la
historia. His poems burn us into recognitions,
giving back to us interlocked dreams and
nightmares necessary for making new worlds in the contexts of the
Americas, His strong poems announce his
engagement with life and languages, his wit, his surgical ironies. They assure us that Torres-Tama is “un hombre
bajo la piel de otra tierra” in the tradition of Langston Hughes, Eduardo
Galeano, Amiri Baraka and Ernesto Cardenal.
His gift is an epistemology for a needful time.
Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
