Copla por la muerte de su padre

Abstract

In this self-translated bilingual poem, Puerto Rican poet Urayoán Noel reflects on life and death in the Caribbean from a contemporary diasporic perspective, recasting the 15th-century Castilian poet Jorge Manrique and his famous version of the copla verse form

Keywords

• poetry
• bilingual
• self-translation
• Puerto Rican
• Caribbean
• death