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I.S.52 Floribel Rodriguez 711 March 3, 2008 Poetry Project Victor Hernandez Cruz would always wear white suits while he read his poems. He is a bilingual poet and wrote both English and Spanish poems. One of his poems that I enjoyed reading was "Problems with Hurricanes." Some of the devices that this poem has are similes, personification, repetition and much more. Also, another poem that I liked and have recently read is "Islam." This poem really taught me that I shouldn't judge a book by its cover. For example, in this poem it talks about how the narrator loves Islam, while other people don't. In my opinion, you shouldn't talk about a place without actually experiencing it and actually visiting it. Some of the devices that this great poem has are, similes, which is when Victor describes how the Caribbean dancers look like angels. Also, he uses personification. What I like about his poems is that he doesn't just use one language he uses both English and Spanish and it's great, because people that on I.S.52 Floribel Rodriguez 711 March 3, 2008 Poetry ProjectVictor Hernandez Cruz would always wear white suits while he read his poems. He is a bilingual poet and wrote both English and Spanish poems. One of his poems that I enjoyed reading was "Problems with Hurricanes." Some of the devices that this poem has are similes, personification, repetition and much more. Also, another poem that I liked and have recently read is "Islam." This poem really taught me that I shouldn't judge a book by its cover. For example, in this poem it talks about how the narrator loves Islam, while other people don't. In my opinion, you shouldn't talk about a place without actually experiencing it and actually visiting it. Some of the devices that this great poem has are, similes, which is when Victor describes how the Caribbean dancers look like angels. Also, he uses personification. What I like about his poems is that he doesn't just use one language he uses both English and Spanish and it's great, because people that only know how to speak English, can try to speak Spanish as well. Victor Hernandez Cruz also won the Lenore Marshall and the International Griffin Poetry Prize for his book of poems, New and Selected Poems. Victor was born in 1949 in the small town Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. He then moved to the United States in 1954 with his family and attended Benjamin Franklin High School in New York. Victor's parents divorced and his mom struggled to support the family on her own. To help his mom, he would write poems and sell them for seventy - five cents each. He started to write poems at the age of fifteen and was inspired by his surroundings. In 1967, he became in editor of Umbra magazine, which was published two years later. At the age of twenty he published Snaps, which was his first collection of poetry. He received a Guggenheim award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a New York Poetry Foundation award. Victor traveled from Puerto Rico and New York. He then moved from New York to Berkley, California where he became an experimental public school teacher. One of the poems that I read and liked by Victor Hernandez Cruz was "Weather Report." This poem is a bout how a forecaster, talks about the crazy temperatures and the storms. Some of

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