Junot Diaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz!

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28. Oh, Rumi!

674 You don’t have “bad” days and “good” days. You don’t sometimes feel brilliant and sometimes dumb. There’s no studying, no scholarly thinking having to do with love. but there is a great deal of plotting, and secret touching, and nights you can’t remember at all. 77 677 There is a light seed grain inside. […]

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8. Lorna Dee Cervantes

Poem for the Fifth Anniversary (And one year after you) I’m hearing surf in the traffic, a constant that reminds me of you. A single passing in the dark madrugada, this stillness dripping city before the gunnings and get aways resume. I caught you in the updraft, uplifted. Can’t say, let down. While all around, […]

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