Founded in 1992 at The City College of New York, the Dominican Studies Institute of the City University of New York is the first and only university-based research institute in the United States devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent.
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Contracanto a Walt Whitman (canto a nosotros mismos) [Countersong to Walt Whitman: Song of Ourselves]
Contracanto a Walt Whitman (canto a nosotros mismos) [Countersong to Walt Whitman: Song of Ourselves]. Produced by Miguel D. Mena. Santo Domingo, 2004. Spanish. 36 minutes.
This is an audio recording featuring the voice of Dominican poet Pedro Mir reading the famous poem “Contracanto a Walt Whitman (canto a nosotrosmismos)” [Countersong to Walt Whitman: Song of Ourselves]. This poem was published in Guatemala in 1952 and is considered to be one of his most accomplished works.
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