Notes on the Return to the Island

In this new collection Notes On The Return To The Island, Bonafide Rojas pays tribute, honors family & puts the lens on the current state of Puerto Rico. From United States colonialism to the creation of a fiscal control board due to the 70 billion dollar debt to his parents relationship with Puerto Rico. Rojas has presented a rare perspective of both "Aqu /All (here/there) of The Nuyorican experience in The Puerto Rican Diaspora. Notes On The Return To The Island will show you what's happening inside Puerto Rico & allow you how they see the world staring at them.

Author: Bonafide Rojas
Publisher: Grand Concourse Press
Published: 06/01/2017
Pages: 158
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d
ISBN13: 9780692860533
ISBN10: 0692860533
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | Hispanic American

About the Author
Bonafide Rojas is the author of When The City Sleeps, Renovatio & Pelo Bueno. He's the bandleader for The Mona Passage & has been published in: Manteca!, Chorus: The Literary Mixtape, Bum Rush The Page, Role Call, Lost Orphan Project, Learn Then Burn (Pt. 1& 2), TheThePoetry Series, Me No Habla Con Acento, The Centro Journal, The Hostos Review, The Acentos Review, Palabras & appeared on Def Poetry Jam & Spitting Ink. He has been written up in The NY Times, NY Daily News, Culture Trip's 10 NYC based Latino Artists to know, The Centro & La Respuesta Media. He has performed at Lincoln Center, The Brooklyn Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, Bowery Ballroom, The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, Rotterdam Arts Center, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Busboys & Poets & Festival De La Palabra. The Mona Passage second EP is due out in 2017. He currently lives in the Bronx.

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