Alma Luz Villanueva Crazy Courage Summary

To Have Courage or Not to Have Courage In the poem “Crazy Courage” the author Alma Luz Villanueva tells the story of a man she went to school with named Michael B. In her poem she explains how Michael came to her fiction class as a man, then later on the same day he showed up to poetry class dressed as a woman. Michael got up in front of the poetry class for a reading dressed in a miniskirt, high boots, bright purple tights, a scooped-neck blouse, carrying a single, living, red rose, in a vase, to the podium. (Villanueva 14-19)

Michael read to those in the class “who would kill him, and/ to those who would love him (Villanueva 27-28).

And of course I remember the surprise of his foamy breasts” as we hugged goodbye, his face blossomed

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