Neil Raymond Ricco

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Occupation
  • Poet
  • writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materLong Island University
Period1982–present

Neil Raymond Ricco, formerly known as Noel Rico, is a Nuyorican poet and writer known for his Spanish, Irish and Italian works.

Personal life

At age 23, Ricco attended Long Island University.[1] As a young writer, he went by the name Noel Rico.[2]

Career

Ricco's work has been published in languages of Spanish, Irish and Italian. He lives in Chula Vista, California[2] and is influenced by Luis Lloréns Torres and Walt Whitman.[3]

Several of his works were published in Decade of Hispanic Literature: An Anniversary Anthology by Nicolás Kanellos.[4] In 1985, "Another Poem for Garcia Lorca" was published in Carreras. Casos en la comunidad.[5] His poem "Excerpt from the South Bronx" appeared in Dodeca.[6] "The First Place" was featured with "The Bronx, 1979" in New York, An Anthology by Mike Marqusee[7] and with "The Lower East Side" and "Excerpt from the South Bronx II" in The Floating Borderlands.[8]

Ricco's poems "January In Motion" and "The Bronx 1979" is for Miguel Piñero.[7][9]

Published works

Other works

Sandra María Esteves' poem "For Noel Rico" was published in Decade of Hispanic Literature: An Anniversary Anthology.[4][10]

References

  1. Vidal, David (1976-05-14). "'Nuyoricans' Express Pain and Joy in Poetry". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "The Spanish Grandmother". Bilingual Review. 27 (3): 282–283. 2003.
  3. Transcultural psychiatry : an Hispanic perspective. Los Angeles: Spanish Speaking Mental Health Research Center. 1977 – via Internet Archive.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kanellos, Nicolás, ed. (1982). A Decade of Hispanic Literature: An Anniversary Anthology. University of Texas: Revista Chicano-Riqueña. pp. 98–103. ISBN 978-0-934770-18-7 – via Google Books.
  5. Pérez-Erdélyi, Mireya (1985). Carreras. Casos en la comunidad (in español). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. pp. 73–75. ISBN 978-0-395-35277-9 – via Internet Archive.
  6. Algarin, Miguel; Holman, Bob (1994-08-15). Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-3257-4.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Marqusee, Mike; Harris, Bill (1985). New York, an anthology. Boston : Little, Brown. pp. 94, 164. ISBN 978-0-316-54709-3 – via Internet Archive.
  8. The floating borderlands : twenty-five years of U.S. Hispanic literature. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1998. pp. 132–134. ISBN 978-0-295-97746-1 – via Internet Archive.
  9. KPFA Folio. Vol. 28. Pacifica Radio Archives. Berkeley, California: Pacifica Foundation. 1977. p. 19 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. Umpierre, Luz María (1983). Nuevas aproximaciones críticas a la literatura puertorriqueña contemporánea (in español). University of Michigan: Editorial Cultural. pp. 14, 122–130. ISBN 978-84-499-6844-0.

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