The Story of the Woman of the Sea

“A classic of queer Puerto Rican literature, Manuel Ramos Otero’s‘The Story of the Woman of the Sea’ follows the winding story of the narrator and his lover, Angelo, in 1970’s New York. The men try to re-imagine the city, their relationship, and their existence through the tale of a woman, Palmira Parés, a poet whose life in many ways parallels that of la maestra poeta Julia de Burgos.” — Clemente Soto Velez Center