Metamorfosis en la metrópoli: la poesía metropolitana de Pedro Pietri

Abstract

This article questions the fact that literature written in New York City by Puerto Rican writers can be considered as part of Puerto Rican national literature. Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican Obituary is read as an emblematic book of Puerto Rican metropolitan poetry. Pietri's poetry, marked by urban and everyday life themes and vocabulary, engages in a dialogue with North American poetry, particularly with texts from the Afro American tradition and the Beat Generation. This connection to North American poetry defies the possibility of including this poetry as part of Puerto Rican national poetry.