Louis Reyes Rivera was an award-winning poet; an academic and professor with a specialty in African American, Puerto Rican, and Caribbean literature and history; a political activist; and a radio show host.
Fondly called, the Janitor of History, Rivera is the recipient of numerous awards, including a lifetime achievement award from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1995), a Special Congressional Recognition award (1988), and City College of New York's 125th Anniversary Medal (1973).
Louis has assisted in the publication of well over 200 books, including John Oliver Killens' Great Black Russian (Wayne State U., 1989), Adal Maldonado's Portraits of the Puerto Rican Experience (IPRUS, 1984), and BBum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown Publishers, 2001). Read full biography at I For Color.
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Scripture
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Paperback
Publisher: Shamal Books (June 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0917886127
ISBN-13: 978-0917886126
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
From the back cover: "Often compared to Arthur A. Schomberg and Ramon
Emeterio Betances, Louis Reyes Rivera is viewed as many as a bridge between
our Pan-American African and Latino communities. With this third book of
poetry, he demonstrates why he is called "The Janitor of History." Here is
testament on behalf of the disinherited, an oration against the distortions
of history; poetry at its finest. Every stanza and line singes with sound,
sense, rhythm and color, agony and celebration. These 46 poems span 21 years
of searching through the rubble of our own contradiction. His is not a
bitter voice, though deep his poems cut through pain and hope and human
capacity. Their intention: to confront our refusal to admit what we do to
one another. Their mission: to advance the clearest definition of ourselves.
Their aim: accurate and compelling."
This One for You (1983)
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Publisher: Shamal Books (1983)
ISBN-10: 0917886089
ISBN-13: 978-0917886089
Who Pays the Cost
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Publisher: Shamal Books (1977)
ISBN-10: 0917886038
ISBN-13: 978-0917886034
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