Miguel Pinero The Winery Sold Dreams Analysis

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Life is not always easy for everyone in this country. Miguel Pinero is a Port Rican writer, who is also a playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café. He was a leading member of the Nuyorican literary movement. His style of writing is unique. His life was not that great, but all he has been through really help him out along the way. His poems are very interesting. In both of his poems, “La Bodega Sold Dreams” and “Seekin’ the cause”, Pinero uses a not so common writing’s style. As his life was all over the place when he wrote those poems, they are great poems with a good background story. The first one la bodega sold dreams translate to be “The winery sold dreams”, he is talking about a

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