Nothing out of this world : Cuban poetry, 1952-2000 /

An introduction to the work of thirty-six poets from Cuba writing in the second half of the twentieth century, including Heberto Padilla, Nancy Morejón, and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. the oldest poet here, Fina García-Marruz, was born in 1923; the youngest, Damaris Calderón, in 1967. It's an extra...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hedeen, Katherine M. (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grewelthorpe, Ripon, England : Smokestack Books, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
  • There's no time to start from the beginning.... / Fina García-Marruz
  • Our Indians / Fina García-Marruz
  • The solemn lessons (1 and 6) / Fina García-Marruz
  • The dead neighbour woman / Carilda Oliver Labra
  • To hope I return, to the wood / Carilda Oliver Labra
  • Lost words / Carila Oliver Labra
  • Reina Street / Lorenzo García Vega
  • Dry rain / Lorenzo García Vega
  • What I'm being / Lorenzo García Vega
  • Mysteries / Roberto Friol
  • The double face / Roberto Friol
  • Before a Chinese pencil / Roberto Friol
  • As if they kicked you out of sleep / Francisco de Oraá
  • Dry / Francisco de Oraá
  • On three photos of Mella / Francisco de Oraá
  • The rooster of Pomander Walk (V and XI) / Pablo Armando Fernández
  • Nihil obstat / Pablo Armando Fernández
  • Salt of memory / Pablo Armando Fernández
  • Sleepless man's rounds (III and V) / Fayad Jamís
  • For this freedom / Fayad Jamís
  • Better to get up / Fayad Jamís
  • The ugly ones / Roberto Fernández Retamar
  • You were right, Tallet: we are men of transition / Roberto Fernández Retamar
  • Cuban poets no longer dream / Heberto Padilla
  • The man on the edge / Heberto Padilla
  • Offside / Heberto Padilla
  • The tablecloths and sheets... / César López
  • Minute, tiny park, sombre and quiet... / César López
  • The grateful one / Rafael Alcides Pérez
  • A man and a woman / Rafael Alcides Pérez
  • Nobody / Rafael Alcides Pérez
  • Metals / Antón Arrufat
  • At the son's door / Antón Arrufat
  • Apology in detail / Antón Arrufat
  • Leave / Manuel Díaz Martínez
  • The house / Manuel Díaz Martínez
  • Immortals / Manuel Díaz Martínez
  • My father, who is still alive / José Kozer
  • On the nation / José Kozer
  • Revolution / Miguel Barnet
  • Orishas / Miguel Barnet
  • Miami / Miguel Barnet
  • P4R / Luis Rogelio Nogueras
  • Joe Bell/The inspector's last case / Luis Rogelio Nogueras
  • Mutisms (IV) / Nancy Morejón
  • Carpet / Nancy Morejón
  • The golden chair / Nancy Morejón
  • Pardon this slight distraction / Raúl Rivero
  • Death suite / Raúl Rivero
  • if those who don't want to understand me... / Lina de Feria
  • From María García Granados to José Martí / LIna de Feria
  • The mudslide and the burial (II) / Lina de Feria
  • She watched the tall flamboyant trees catch fire / Raúl Hernández Novás
  • The sun in the snow / Raúl Hernández Novás
  • He has told me / Raúl Hernández Novás
  • Fable rain / Luis Lorente
  • Under the wheels / Luis Lorente
  • The magician (Arcana I) / José Pérez Olivares
  • Reflections by the painter James Ensor / José Pérez Olivares
  • Reflection on the kiss of Judas / José Pérez Olivares
  • Flows (2, 5, 8, 11, and 12) / Soleida Ríos
  • Tuesday the 13th in the Sargasso Sea / Soleida Ríos
  • Regrets for a white lamb / Reina María Rodríguez
  • The women write love letters / Reina María Rodríguez
  • The winter garden photograph / Reina María Rodríguez
  • Cancelled poem / Alex Fleites
  • Simple story / Alex Fleites
  • Prologue - to Rafael Alberti's The Lost Grove / Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
  • Marco Polo's dilemma / Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
  • Praise for the neutrino / Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
  • A question / Ángel Escobar
  • 7:15 a.m. / Ángel Escobar
  • Sense / Ángel Escobar
  • Transitory poem / Ramón Fernández-Larrea
  • Reina Street's Arcades / Ramón Fernández-Larrea
  • I can open my eyes / Roberto Méndez
  • The stellar / Roberto Méndez
  • Transfiguration / Roberto Méndez
  • En c'est temps la / Sigfredo Ariel
  • (Other) lost labours of love / Sigfriedo Ariel
  • Provisions / Sigfredo Ariel
  • The stranger / Juan Carlos Pérez Flores
  • Page in homage to the Goliard poets / Juan Carlos Pérez Flores / NASA / Juan Carlos Pérez Flores
  • Pandemonium of freedom / Alberto Rodríguez Tosca All the happiness is in a telephone booth / Alberto Rodríguez Tosca
  • Stockholm syndrome / Carlos Augusto Alfonso
  • The dog / Carlos Augusto Alfonso
  • Labarum / Carlos Augusto Alfonso
  • Critical essay on my father's hands / Ricardo Alberto Pérez
  • The painting where the dog was / Ricardo Alberto Pérez
  • The poem's words / Ricardo Alberto Pérez
  • Mules and knights / Omar Pérez López
  • Breadcrumb soup / Omar Pérez López
  • Evangelicals / Omar Pérez López
  • A woman alone and bitter / Damaris Calderón
  • Mezcal / Damaris Calderón
  • Syllables. Ecce homo / Damaris Calderón.