Entre la poesía y la música: Victor Hernández Cruz y el mapa musical nuyorican

This paper argues that, in the context of Nuyorican poetry in the 1960s and 1970s, Victor Hernández Cruz s Snaps (1968) stands as the only poetry collection to engage in a dynamic dialogue with the popular music that so heavily influenced the Nuyorican experience of that era. Hernández Cruz s dynamism had a founding spirit; aside from endorsing the latin bugalú, it contains the seed for what latin jazz will make into a tradition: the Caribbeanization of TheloniousMonk.