Wow, should be terrific evening, Mark. Wish I could be there....
Doug
On 9-Feb-10, at 9:05 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> Reading from The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry,
> Wednesday Feb. 17th at 8, at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's
> Church, 131 E. 10th Street, N.Y. Participants: poets and translators
> Chris Brandt, Lourdes Gil, Mónica de la Torre, Jason Weiss and Mark
> Weiss.
>
>
>
> Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
> of California Press).
> http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
>
> "Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book
> of Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so
> effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United
> States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in
> English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The
> Nation
>
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