Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Latina Studies. Reina Maria Rodriguez was born in Havana in 1952, less than a decade before the Cuban Revolution took place. Developing in a cultural climate that could be both encouraging and tense, Rodriguez has struggled to establish a questioning, experimental poetics over the years that has both expressed and questioned values of contemporary Cuban culture. To date she has published eight books of poetry-among them LA FOTO DEL INVERNADERO, PARA UN CORDERO BLANCO and PARAMOS--and has become a major force in Cuban poetics and literature. VIOLET ISLAND AND OTHER POEMS was translated from Spanish by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen.
Synopsis
Born in Havana in 1952, Reina María Rodriguez developed her poetry in a cultural climate that could be both encouraging and tense. Over the years she struggled to establish a questioning, experimental poetics that has both expressed and questioned -values of contemporary Cuban culture. Winner of the Casa de las Americas prize of poetry, the UNEAC Prize, and the Julián del Casal prize, Rodriguez is recognized today as one of the most -outstanding of Cuban writers.
Synopsis
The first collection of translated poetry by one of Cuba's most noted authors.
About the Author
One of the major poets of contemporary Cuban literature, still living in Cuba.