{"id":3936,"date":"2025-04-22T19:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T23:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=3936"},"modified":"2025-06-13T05:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:29:13","slug":"urayoan-noel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/?page_id=3936","title":{"rendered":"Urayo\u00e1n Noel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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                               SOLOS<\/strong>
                                          a Rigoberto Gonz\u00e1lez)

Our rough 
topics?
Time\u2019s bluff.

               Viertes
               flemas.
               Suertes.

Raw pics.
Burnt sky
tropics.

               Quemas
               cielos.
              \u00bfTemas?

We\u2019ll cry 
or wish 
to die.

             Duelos.
             Llantos
             de los

Our swish
stays fresh.
Fierce (-ish)!

              tantos
              crueles
              cantos.

Sun's mesh
beset
our flesh.

               Dueles.
               Somos
               pieles.

Now let
us kill
(word!) debt

               Lomos.
               Plexos.
               Homos\u2026

until
we're worth
the nil

                Nexos
                sin
                sexos.

of earth
we claim
at birth.

                 Ruin
                 nuestro
                 fin.

Our name?
Bone mound
that came

                 Diestro
                 beso.
                 Estro.

around 
enough
to sound.

                  Hueso.
                  Muertes.
                  Eso.<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
Urayo\u00e1n Noel <\/strong>(San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1976) is the author of seven books of poetry, including Transversal <\/em>(University of Arizona Press, 2021) –a New York Public Library Book of the Year–, and Boringk\u00e9n<\/em> (Ediciones Callej\u00f3n, 2008) –an El Nuevo D\u00eda Book of the Year–. Other works include the critical study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam<\/em> (University of Iowa Press, 2014), winner of the LASA Latino Studies Book Award and an MLA Honorable Mention, and the performance text EnUncIAdOr<\/em> (Editora Educaci\u00f3n Emergente, 2014). A finalist for the National Translation Award, Noel has translated Nicole Cecilia Delgado\u2019s islas adyacentes<\/em> \/ adjacent islands <\/em>(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022) and Wingston Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s No Budu Pleas<\/em>e (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), among other works of Latin American poetry. Originally from R\u00edo Piedras, Puerto Rico, Urayo\u00e1n Noel lives in the Bronx and teaches literary and cultural studies, translation, performance, and creative writing in English and Spanish at New York University, and also serves on the board of the Clemente Soto V\u00e9lez Cultural and Educational Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SOLOS a Rigoberto Gonz\u00e1lez)Our rough topics?Time\u2019s bluff. Viertes flemas. Suertes.Raw pics.Burnt skytropics. Quemas cielos. \u00bfTemas?We\u2019ll cry or wish to die. Duelos. Llantos de losOur swishstays fresh.Fierce (-ish)! tantos crueles cantos.Sun’s meshbesetour flesh. Dueles. Somos pieles.Now letus kill(word!) debt Lomos. Plexos. Homos\u2026untilwe’re worththe nil Nexos sin sexos.of earthwe claimat birth. Ruin nuestro fin.Our name?Bone moundthat came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33188029,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_about_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_gallery_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_contact_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_events_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_video_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_portfolio_piece":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3936","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2V8if-11u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/33188029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4663,"href":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3936\/revisions\/4663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trasatlantica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}