ISBN: 9780822958802

Ninety miles separate Cuba and Key West, Florida. Crossing that distance, thousands of Cubans have lost their lives. For Cuban American poet Virgil Suárez, that expanse of ocean re… More...

Ninety miles separate Cuba and Key West, Florida. Crossing that distance, thousands of Cubans have lost their lives. For Cuban American poet Virgil Suárez, that expanse of ocean represents the state of exile, which he has imaginatively bridged in over two decades of compelling poetry. "Whatever isn't voiced in time drowns," Suárez writes in "River Fable," and the urgency to articulate the complex yearnings of the displaced marks all the poems collected here. 90 Miles contains the best work from Suárez's six previous collections: You Come Singing, Garabato, In the Republic of Longing, Palm Crows, Banyan, and Guide to the Blue Tongue, as well as important new poems. At once meditative, confessional, and political, Suárez's work displays the refracted nature of a life of exile spent in Cuba, Spain, and the United States. Connected through memory and desire, Caribbean palms wave over American junk mail. Cuban mangos rot on Miami hospital trays. William Shakespeare visits Havana. And the ones who left Cuba plant trees of reconciliation with the ones who stayed. Courageously prolific, Virgil Suárez is one of the most important Latino writers of his generation. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Poetry>Poetry>Poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press Core >1 >T<

ISBN: 9780822958802

Paperback / softback. New. In creating this collection Suarez creatively combines poems from six previous collections with unpublished ones to give compelling expression of what it means… More...

Paperback / softback. New. In creating this collection Suarez creatively combines poems from six previous collections with unpublished ones to give compelling expression of what it means to live in exile., 6<

2005, ISBN: 0822958805

Paperback

[EAN: 9780822958802], Neubuch, [PU: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr], 1st edition. 114 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.25 inches. In Stock., Books