This author of the poetic trilogy "Empire of Dreams" wrote a novel that opens with the "Death of a Businessman" in the 9/11 attacks and the first complete novel composed in Spanglish.
A passage by this author notes that mannequins' hair color is changed from blond to black in times of mourning. This writer declared that she was bored by semicolons and memories in a "Pastoral" section of a poem in which shepherds block streets and ring the bells of St. Patrick's Cathedral. She used the terms Wishy, Washy, and Wishy-Washy to describe the political options of her (*) homeland in a novel that adapts Life is a Dream to include Sigismundo being held in the dungeon of the Statue of Liberty. This author of the poetic trilogy "Empire of Dreams" wrote a novel that opens with the "Death of a Businessman" in the 9/11 attacks and the first complete novel composed in Spanglish. For 10 points, name this Puerto Rican author of United States of Banana and Yo-Yo Boing!
A passage by this author notes that mannequins' hair color is changed from blond to black in times of mourning.
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