Affrilachian poet Ricardo Nazario y Colón has two new books coming out in the relatively near future. One book will be out between now and the end of the year: “Of Jíbaros and Hillbillies,” from Plain View Press, for 35 years now an independent literary pubisher in Austin, Texas. Jíbaros were the hill people, Puerto Rico’s hillbillies, a working class of people who worked in the sugar and tobacco fields. The term jíbaros can have a negative or positive connotation. It represents people who are the cuture’s backbone, but it could mean maybe those who are too impressionable, I’m not sure. With his sense of humor, and his diverse cultural understanding, the poet has a book here I look forward to reading. I’ll keep you posted. A second interesting-sounding book, a chapbook that contains about 30 poems, is called “Orseito: The Moor of the Bronx” and is due out by February 2011.

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