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Spic Chic [Paperback]

"An original, uprorarious, disarming journey

that holds no limits and where nothing is sacred."
Nicholosa Mohr Author

"His unique voice as a writer clearly displays

his poetic influences, his uncanny ear for

dialogue and his completely original sense of humor."
Elias Stimac Backstage

"Strong stuff, right in the Nuyorican tradition.

Poems and then stories back into poems that

are often emotionally moving. A self exploration

in a non-chronological history consistent in

language and point of view, it is clearly a highly

personalized work that is successful in the Nuyorican

free-style genre and successful in the broader sense as well."
David Henderson ('Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky: Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child)

Clem Richardson of the NY Daily News
describes Chaluisan's work as

"old-school, often as literate as it is lyrical,
stuffed with images drawn from NY City life."

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Spic Chic, by Luis Chaluisan
(Fly by Night Press, 2009)
Review by Charlie Vázquez
AMBIENTE MAGAZINE

The rules of poetry are created by its author, much as a criminal operates both within and away from society, as he or she sees fit. Thus, it’s no wonder that so many poets past and present have dabbled in crime and write about these adventures of subculture, as with Luis Chaluisan, who surfaced in the earliest days of the Nuyorican poetry scene. Chaluisan’s poems are odes—both celebratory and regretful—to his experiences as a New York-born Puerto Rican surviving on the streets of New York. And I’m not talking about the well-heeled New York of today, but of the smoldering 1970s and 1980s. I remember living in the East Tremont neighborhood of the Bronx during the mid- to late-1970s, and anyone involved in crime who survived to write about it gets instant applause for that alone.
Luis “El Extreme” Chaluisan—a musician, writer, and former news reporter—is in no denial of his controversy, as spelled out in the book’s opening disclaimer statement. Although I thought I knew what I was walking into when I read this book by the Section 13 jetty of the “Bronx Riviera” recently (Orchard Beach), I was thrown for some surprises. These twenty-plus pieces range from serious (“Johnny Boy”) to whimsical (“Surfing in the South Bronx”), and Chaluisan’s greatest effectiveness is achieved when he releases his honest emotions for public viewing— which you almost don’t expect him to do (“I slide precariously alongside her path, at once tender, then off-center,” from “Carmen Baby”). In “Wilfredo the Anointed Apostle”, about a gay santero barber, Chaluisan explains, “So before we crucify him with whispered nails…homo, queer, fazzy hole…stop and think…perhaps a person’s lifestyle is really a blessing, for who are we to know God’s ways and plans…when we’re walking together, people just stop and stare…but if you could see him through my eyes, he wouldn’t be a faggot but a man.” Spic Chic is an exciting tour of jazz and salsa clubs, women of pleasure, of the island, of desperate people struggling to survive—of joy and pain—but it’s also about transformation. It’s really about becoming greater and wiser than what doom had planned for your soul.

REPEATING ISLANDS REVIEW
Spic Chic: The Adventures of the Last Nuyorican (2009) is a book of poetry by musician, writer, and former news reporter/producer Luis Chaluisan. Clem Richardson of the NY Daily News describes Chaluisan’s work as “old- school, often as literate as it is lyrical, stuffed with images drawn from New York City life.” David Henderson sees this text as “strong stuff, right in the Nuyorican tradition. Poems and then stories back into poems that are often emotionally moving. A self exploration in a non-chronological history consistent in language and point of view, it is clearly a highly personalized work that is successful in the Nuyorican free-style genre and successful in the broader sense as well.”

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Elmhurst Hospital
79-01 Broadway
Elmhurst, Queens NY
Sept. 27, 1957
3:29 PM

Baptized Oct. 1957
St. Paul's Catholic Church
Boerum Hill, BK.
234 Congress St, Brooklyn, NY

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Please Please Me
The Beatles
March 1963
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"I Saw Her Standing There"
1. Side B "Love Me Do"
7. Side B "Twist and Shout"
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