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Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me. Jaime Manrique. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1999. 198 pages. $19.95 cloth.

The distinction between grieving and grief, Robert Frost teaches us, is the distinction between politics and poetry. If that is the case, Jaime Manrique's Eminent Maricones belongs on the side of poetry and grief.

Eminent Maricones seems to announce itself, in its title, as a feisty parody. In a time when we often are instructed to consider...