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Kip Hanrahan: Pinero

This is the soundtrack album to Leon Ichaso's biopic of Puerto Rican street poet Miguel Pinero, maybe best known for his play about prison life, Short Eyes. The film itself was described this way in a New York Times review: The movie, a flashy montage, which jumps around in time and alternates between color and black & white, lacks narrative cohesion. But its agitated style mirrors Pinero's streetwise pre-rap poetry...
Given all of the above, it is no surprise that ...
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