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This exhibition, Text as Image: An Homage to Lorenzo Homar and the Reverend Pedro Pietri, was assembled for the El Museo del Bario by Margarita Agiiuilar. Both are Puerto Rican poets, Homar a more conventional printmaker and Pietri a founding member of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pietro's artworks are an angry form of those written by Ben and the Fluxus group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is an unlabeled box with unbound but numbered page scut in the form of an ellipse. Margarita Deidra Pietri is the Literary Administrator of Pietri's estate. His papers are held by Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021 (212-772-4197) including material related to 'I Never Promised You a Cheeseburger.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was first published by Waterfront Press in 1984. It is an absurd political drama along the lines of the plays by Ionesco or Beckett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944 -- March 3, 2004), was a Nuyorican poet and playwright who co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He was the poet laureate of the Nuyorican Movement.Internet: Out of Order / Out of Service comprises 330 compositions that express the complex vision of the world of the poet-performer Pedro Pietri. The collection is divided into seven sections. "To write a poem" includes the lines that have at their center the reflection (smitizzante and surrealist) to make poetry. "Forget logic" leads us beyond the mirror of normal daily life in the universe upside down and absurdist poet. "Because I love you" is composed of a sequence of letters and declarations of love disenchanted, sometimes cynical and bitter, always refused to violence with violence of sentimentality and pathos. "Tremble the night" makes us partakers of nocturnal dimension, dreamlike, visionary Pietri, where plans and prospects are systematically and methodically challenged and overturned. "In this...

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In this book of poetry, Pietri writes about the harsh life of Puerto Ricans in NYC. This is the first published collection of poems by Pieri ncluding the title poem "Puerto Rican Obituary" - Pietri's best-known work, and something of an anthem for the Nuyorican Poetry movement. Pietri (1944-2004) was a co-founder, with Miguel Pinero and Miguel Algarín, of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in 1973. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents kenning editions: The Masses Are Asses is a one-act whiteface agitprop farce"”an avant garde tragedy of errors, the only error being its own theatricality. A "Lady" and a "Gentleman" of audacious sophistication extol their superiority and smear "the poor" over champagne in a Parisian bistro that doubles as a South Bronx toilet (or is it the other way around?). A supposed lust for prestige stokes the terrorist group A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I. ("Armed / Brave / Comrades / Determined / Efficient / Fighters / Gonna / Humiliate / Imperialism!"), whose bullets and bombs punctuate the night. Needing an effective distraction from the ambient siege (which sounds an awful lot like a characteristic evening in the burrough), the couple "pretend" to be common, drink straight from the bottle, and grind to the rhythm of the telephone as it rings and rings (presumably by would-be patrons of the establishment they insist to inhabit). But when the lady fails to snap out of the masque, the gentleman...

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This essay describes the work of the Nuyorican (New York/Puerto Rican) poet Pedro Pietri. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.