She wrote the poetry epic "Empire of Dreams" (1988) about New York City. Her poetry is humorours. She wrote the first Spanglish novel "Yo-Yo Boing!" (1998). Spanglish is a mix of the English and Spanish languages. She wrote the novel "United States of Banana" (2011) about terrorism and the collapse of the United States. The novel opens with the fall of the World Trade Center in 2001, and ends with the liberation of Puerto Rico. 