Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood (Paperback)

Judith Ortiz Cofer
Arte Publico Press
 9781558850156
1-55885-015-5

Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. SILENT DANCING combines poetry and prose to form an innovative and deeply personal narrative that explores Judith Ortiz Cofer's memories of her childhood spent between Puerto Rico and New Jersey. Winner of the 1991 PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation for Nonfiction. "This book is a treasure, a secret door opening onto memories locked away long ago"--San Francisco Chronicle.