Reviews for La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: Poetry Y Otras Movidas

The average rating for La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: Poetry Y Otras Movidas based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-05-11 00:00:00 Henry Rosenfeld This book was recommended to me when I worked for William Burroughs Communications. Oh, how I could relate, having been around artist junkies and wandering poets and moody, irrational alcoholic geniuses - while not seeing my female friends or myself championed as self destructive heroines. These women write about the life of US, the women who were also in those circles of creative insanity, putting up with violent, lazy, thieving, cheating men who said they loved us. Throughout history the lives of women in powerful movements were hidden. They paid the rent, made sure there was food, made carbon copies of their lovers' work. But they also WROTE, beautifully, from the point of view of women who love their lovers, love their friends, and love finding their strength. These women grow as they age, becoming more compassionate and more critical. After reading this, I was led to Jan Kerouac, Joyce Johnson, Diane di Prima, etc. - voices who wrote like mine, affirmed my life story. I read so much of the male Beats writing, and loved it, but didn't feel I was really in the story. Who were the women? They were us.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-27 00:00:00 Antonio Di Maio "who will slap my backside when i am born again?"