United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel is recommended by Midwest Books.
"As iconoclastic and entertaining as it is thoughtful and thought-provoking, United States of Banana is a tale for our times and unreservedly recommended for community, college and university library political graphic novel collections."
Hispanic New York: "Avid fans of Latin American and Latino literature have long been following the Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi. Best known for penning the first Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! and geopolitical tragicomedy United States of Banana, Braschi is an ardent champion of Puerto Rican independence—and of free expression. Often called revolutionary and prophetic, her high-voltage...
“How can you continue to believe in poetry, after all the blows that life has dealt you? How does one still believe in feelings and innocence?” Giannina Braschi
Pocas voces se han alzado en los últimos tiempos con la fuerza creadora y la capacidad de seducción de Giannina Braschi, la poeta puertorriqueña que ha revolucionado el panorama literario con una propuesta sincera, innovadora e inquietante. Braschi utiliza la palabra como una herramienta para la transformación social, un arma del futuro capaz de impulsar el cambio hacia un mundo mas humano, justo...
"Sidestepping the easily consumable, Braschi’s creative work puts pressure on and radically bends a Latinx literary canon, and with this she calls attention to the self-within-the-collective of nation and diasporic community. She converses with Isabel Rios (Victuum, 1976), Cecile Pineda (Face, 1985), Guillermo Gomez-Peña (Codex Espangliensis, 1998), Alejandro Morales (Waiting to Happen, 2001)...
PEN calls the Puerto Rican poet and author Giannina Braschi one of the most revolutionary writers in Latin American literature today. In Puerto Rico, we are proud to call this Boricua more simply “one of us!” Born in San Juan, she was a founding member of El Coro de Niños de San Juan, a fashion model, and tennis champion in her teen years on the island. Her family friends and mentors included the...
Latinx Spaces interviewed Puerto Rican composer Gabriel Bouche Caro about his art song cycle based upon Giannina Braschi's epic love poem to New York City, El imperio de los sueños. Braschi named Angelamaría Dávila, Luis Pales Matos, and Julia de Burgos as her favorite Puerto Rican poets who the composer should include in his song cycle.
CAMBIEMOS con Jorge Neri Bonilla. "Pocas voces se han alzado en los últimos tiempos con la fuerza creadora y la capacidad de seducción de Giannina Braschi (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1953), la poeta puertorriqueña que ha revolucionado el panorama literario en América con una propuesta sincera, innovadora e inquietante, no exenta de una fina ironía que, por momentos, desborda en un humor ácido e...
Rolando Pérez Interviews Giannina Braschi On Banana Republics of the Americas, Loud Americans, the Aesthetics of Mestizaje, the Zoom Look, Illusions, Delusions, Trump, and Plagues
Giannina Braschi is one of our great Latinx vanguardista poets, performers, fiction makers. However, like other deep creators—think Roberto Bolaño, Fernando A. Flores, Salvador Plascencia—the complexity of their work at once demands attentive study and scares off the weak of heart. Like a Borges or a Faulkner, Braschi pushes hard at the limits of creation. In this sense, she’s a poet and a poet’s...