Beneath the Spanish

Praise for Victor Hernández Cruz: "Bilingual since childhood, Mr. Cruz writes poems about his native Puerto Rico and elsewhere which often speak to us with a forked tongue, sometimes in a highly literate Spanglish. . . . He's a funny, hard-edged poet, declining always into mother wit and pathos." The New York Times Book Review "A fluent sensualist and rhythmic stylist." The Washington Post "Like a salsa band leader coaxing and challenging dancers to more and more complex steps, Cruz dares reader