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Emergency Tacos: Seven Poets Con Picante: Badikian, Cisneros, Cortez, Cumpián, Gallaher, Lopez Castro, Niño
Today you hear a lot about emergency shelters, emergency medicine, emergency maneuvers, emergency pantries. Now emergency tacos...simon, que si, emergency tacos are what we ordered!
Who are we? We're the poets and participants from some of Chicago's diverse communities who blended time and energy to make homegrown cultural parrandas, under the banner of Galeria Quique.
...Entonces, "this is not a test." What you're holding is an actual emergency taco. Ojala, you'll savor the seven poetic flavors within and find them bien picoso.
~ Carlos Cumpian, editor, 1989
Who are we? We're the poets and participants from some of Chicago's diverse communities who blended time and energy to make homegrown cultural parrandas, under the banner of Galeria Quique.
...Entonces, "this is not a test." What you're holding is an actual emergency taco. Ojala, you'll savor the seven poetic flavors within and find them bien picoso.
~ Carlos Cumpian, editor, 1989
39 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1989
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June 11, 2010I read an article about Sandra Cisneros and she revealed that the title of this book stems from her writer friend group having frenzied editing sessions at a taco place...now I want to read this.
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