Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1963, is a literary voice from the Puerto Rican literary scene. Member and co-editor of the Poetry journal Filo de juego (1982–1987) the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña published, in 2002, his early poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

 under a volume entitled El hilo para el marisco/Cuaderno de los envíos (2002). This volume received the Puerto Rican Pen Club Poetry Prize in 2004. Quintero Herencia has published other collections of poetry such as La caja negra (1996, Isla Negra) and Libro del sigiloso (2007, Terranova). Quintero Herencia's poetry is complex

Complexity

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 and contains an intense desire for experiment

Experiment

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ation and baroque

Baroque

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 imagery. In Quintero's recent poetry a concern for the specific nature of the political gesture of poetry is a recurrent topic. As an essayist Quintero-Herencia established himself with Fulguración del espacio: Letras e imaginario institucional de la Revolución cubana (1960–1971) (Beatriz Viterbo, 2002), a contextual

Context (language use)

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 and critical reading of the crucial debate

Debate

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s which defined the Cuba

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n intellectual

Intellectual

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 field during the 1960’s. His second book, La máquina de la salsa: Tránsitos del sabor (Ediciones Vértigo, 2005) has been hailed by Puerto Rican critic

Critic

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s as the most comprehensive critical balance on the Salsa

Salsa music

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 phenomenon

Phenomenon

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. As a Professor

Professor

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, Quintero-Herencia teaches undergraduate and graduate

Graduate school

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 courses in Latin America

Latin America

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n and Caribbean

Caribbean

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 literatures and cultures at the University of Maryland

University of Maryland, College Park

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, College Park

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 (USA). He also teaches Literary Theory

Literary theory

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. Before going to the University of Maryland, he taught at the University of Puerto Rico

University of Puerto Rico

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, Río Piedras and Brown University

Brown University

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• http://www1.uprh.edu/zjimenez/GENERACION%2080/bibliografia_generacional.htm