Lamento Borinqueño: 'Anthem of Evaporated Tears'

Credit: Cardboard House Press Oye! Poetry is song. It’s not like song. It is. Always. If it isn’t, you’re probably doing it wrong, probably been fed a paler shade of quasi-poetry from El Norte. A poem can be musical, might share qualities of a song, but they aren’t interchangeable. Tell that to Camarón de la Isla as he houndwail’s Federico Federico García Lorca’s “La Leyenda del Tiempo” to Celia…