Giannina Braschi

(1953) Poet United States

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Giannina Braschi is a poet from the United States, best known for United States Of Banana.

Quick Facts About Giannina Braschi

Born: February 5, 1953
Nationality: United States
Profession: Poet
Notable works: United States Of Banana
Known for: United States of Banana, Yo-Yo Boing!, Braschi's Empire of Dreams

About Giannina Braschi

Giannina Braschi is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998), United States of Banana (2011), and Putinoika (2024).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Quotes by Giannina Braschi

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

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America

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Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

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Don't change

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Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

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Birth

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I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair.…

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Bears

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What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

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Dignity

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If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

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Children

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A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But…

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Baby

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Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

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Break

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“When you create a genre—which is not a movement—because it has no past—and if it has a past—its past is pregnant with…

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Genre-bending

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It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

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Art

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Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

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Capable

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I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of…

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America

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“What we have here is a war—the war of matter and spirit. In the classical era, spirit was in harmony with matter.…

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American politics

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Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the…

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American dream

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“A month doesn’t produce what a day can give. A nanosecond can be more productive than all the technology of an hour.”

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Nanosecond

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“On Make America Great Again: The agenda of a dead body coming back to life. Whenever you have the past (what is…

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Delusion

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Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

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Democratic

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“The president, the secretary of state, the businessman, the preacher, the vendor, the spies, the clients and managers—all walking around Wall Street…

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Americans