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Urayoán Noel Reads from "Hi-Density Politics"

Urayoán Noel Reads from "Hi-Density Politics"

Book cover for “Hi-Density Politics”

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Listen in to a reading by Tomás Urayoán Noel, poet and assistant professor of English at SUNY-Albany. Urayoán is the author of four books of poetry written in both Spanish and English, including Kool Logic (La lógica kool, 2005) and, most recently, Hi-Density Politics (2010). Urayoán is currently finishing a book manuscript on the aesthetics of performance in Nuyorican poetry.

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Recorded Saturday, February 26, 2011 at Batey Urbano.

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