New York: Norton, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth collection of poems by this highly praised, Brooklyn-born, Puerto Rican poet - included are a series of autobiographical poems, and others about political persecution and transcendance. The final long poem in the book 'Hands Without Irons Become Dragonflies" was written as an elegy for the Puerto Rican poet and nationalist Clemente Soto Velez. Winner of the American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 107 pp. ISBN: 0-393039161.