Empire of Dreams (poetry collection)

Not to be confused with Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy, a 2004 documentary about the making of the original Star Wars trilogy, or Klonoa: Empire of Dreams, a Klonoa game released in 2001 for the Game Boy Advance.

Empire of Dreams (Spanish: El imperio de los sueños, 1988) is a postmodern poetry epic by Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi, who is considered "one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin American literature today".[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Love, liberty, inspiration, immigration, gender fluidity, and creativity are the main themes of Empire of Dreams, an ode to New York City.

  1. ^ "Giannina Braschi". National Book Festival. Library of Congress. 2012. Braschi, one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America today.
  2. ^ Aldama, Frederick Luis (2020). Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. Pittsburgh. ISBN 9780822946182.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ "Modern Language Association Presents Giannina Braschi". Circumference Magazine: Poetry in Translation, Academy of American Poets. January 1, 2013. Considered one of the most revolutionary Latin American poets writing today, Giannina Braschi, author of the epic prose poem 'Empire of Dreams'.
  4. ^ "World Literature in Translation: Giannina Braschi's Empire of Dreams". Yale University Press. August 1994. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-09. Braschi's book is a modern classic, informed with all of the major concerns of our contemporary culture.
  5. ^ "PEN: Free Expression/Literature". PEN American Center. November 2012. Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary voices in Latin America today, wrote the postmodern poetry classic EMPIRE OF DREAMS.
  6. ^ D'Amore; Anna Maria (2009). Translating Contemporary Mexican Texts: Fidelity to Alterity. New York: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics. p. 104. In the stakes of literary acclaim and respectability is Giannina Braschi, considered by many to be Puerto Rico's premier poet.
  7. ^ Barnstone, Willis (1994), Literature of Asia, Africa, and Latin America: From Antiquity to the Present, Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, p. 1954, Empire of Dreams is an epic length sequence of poems published to acclaim".../"brightest new voice in her generation in the Spanish language.