https://padlet.com/jsilvano2/e15cu5w9hiw8f48n Sandra Maria Esteves en-us 2021-04-22 02:14:36 UTC 2021-04-22 02:36:27 UTC hello@padlet.com jsilvano2 https://padlet.com/jsilvano2/e15cu5w9hiw8f48n/wish/1445293749 Sandra Maria Esteves is known for her non-fiction poetry and has been featured in anthologies. Her first poetry book called “Yerba Buena” was reviewed as “a book of healing and proof of a truly original poetic voice” by Wolfgang Binder from the University of Erlangen in West Germany. It proved to do very well and was later followed with two more poetry books, “Tropical Rain: A Bilingual Downpour” and “Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo.”  Sandra Maria Esteves was born and raised in Bronx, New York. She is not only known for her poems, but also for her artwork as shown in some of her books. In 1985, Sandra received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation of Arts and conducted many literary programs for the Bronx Council on the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, and the New York City Board of Education. 

]]> 2021-04-22 02:16:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jsilvano2/e15cu5w9hiw8f48n/wish/1445293749 jsilvano2 https://padlet.com/jsilvano2/e15cu5w9hiw8f48n/wish/1445302564 Esteves’ literature mostly includes theme of social justice and personal transformations. Her work showcases the struggles of womanhood, the encounters her people face in New York, and the relationship between her body and nature. “My name is Maria Christina/ I speak two languages broken into each other/ but my heart speaks the language of people/ born in oppression” (pg. 63). The poem A la Mujer Borrinqueña highlights the experience of being a Hispanic woman and how the ideas of her culture affect the views of women. Staring into the eye of the truth is a piece describing pimples on her face which signify different struggles her people face. “and when I squeezed it out came ten easy lessons/ on culturally deprived and making it” (pg. 44).]]> 2021-04-22 02:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jsilvano2/e15cu5w9hiw8f48n/wish/1445302564 jsilvano2 https://padlet.com/jsilvano2/e15cu5w9hiw8f48n/wish/1445304739 What drew me to this work was what she describes in her poems. The experience of Latina woman living in New York and how she undergoes being deprived of her own culture. The way she describes Hispanic women facing machismo. What pulled me in most is her writing style which is comforting but also eye opening. Sandra Maria Esteves work is profound and describes exactly what plenty of Latinos and Latinas feel. Her work has contributed in the topics of our course through the fight she is trying to go through in New York. She fights the known discrimination of the Puerto Rican community in New York. She fights this through her written work which was how a lot of Puerto Rican community tried to fight this. They expressed the poems and the biggest way was through the Nuyorican Cafe. Which Sandra Maria Esteves was a big contribution of this cafe being there today. This is what we have learned throughout our course of how common each ethnic group had to go through their own tribulations. We have discussed different situations of how in the latino community has to endured but she mainly focuses in the Puerto Rican point of view in New York. Her work has captivated and shown so many people the way the Puerto Ricans were truly discriminated. This also could date back when Spain took over the latino community and the way the discriminated them as well. ]]> 2021-04-22 02:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jsilvano2/e15cu5w9hiw8f48n/wish/1445304739