SOURCE: Cruz, Victor Hernández, and Francisco Cabanillas. “Spanish in English: An Interview with Victor Hernández Cruz.” Latino Studies Journal 6, no. 1 (January 1995): 49-61.

In the following interview, Cruz discusses his poetry in terms of his use of language and the influence of Puerto Rican culture on his writing.

Vivíamos en la reflexión Del sol Las ideas acumulando perfume. 

V. H. C.

Victor Hernandez Cruz is a Puerto Rican poet who has spent a great deal of his life outside Puerto Rico, but has never been away from it. From Aguas Buenas to New York, from New York to California, and from California back to Aguas Buenas, Cruz's work has been on the road, and his poetry is constantly in motion. After 35 years of “exile,” his poetry beckoned for his return; Cruz has gone back to the beginning.

Cruz moved from Puerto Rico to New York...