Interview with NuYo-Rican poet Victor Hernandez Cruz. He discusses being a culturally identified writer in a society which increasingly supresses culturally identified expression, multiculturalism, the mixing of races and cultures, his new book Red Beans, his sources in Puerto Rico, the tobacco workshop, declaimers of Puerto Rican literature, poetry in the nearly extinct Taino language of the Caribbean. Includes original poetry by Cruz in Spanish and English, with some musical accompaniment.|RIMO EN MESTISAJE / Victor Hernandez Cruz| interviewed by Catalina Reyes. - Interview with NuYo-Rican poet Victor Hernandez Cruz. He discusses being a culturally identified writer in a society which increasingly supresses culturally identified expression, multiculturalism, the mixing of races and cultures, his new book Red Beans, his sources in Puerto Rico, the tobacco workshop, declaimers of Puerto Rican literature, poetry in the nearly extinct Taino language of the Caribbean. Includes original poetry by Cruz in Spanishand English, with some musical accompaniment. - RECORDED: KUMN, Alburquerqu, Aug. 1991.
