Applause from the back row ... Andrew
On 23 March 2010 06:30, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Boast away, Mark. Good on ya....
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> Doug
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> On 22-Mar-10, at 2:46 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
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> This from the March issue of Library Journal.
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>> The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.
>> ed. & tr. by Mark Weiss. U.S.: Univ. of California Pr. 2009. 624p. ISBN
>> 978-0-520-25894-5. pap. $29.95. POETRY
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>> Cuba’s poets have always found their place within the constructs of
>> history, yet we remain naïve about these
>> The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.
>> brilliant writers and the works that they have beautifully created, until
>> now. From the depths of the Cuban psyche, editor and translator Weiss
>> delicately gathers six decades of Cuban poetry in this bilingual anthology.
>> This literary feat, an act of opposition to censorship, inevitably presents
>> the works of poets who have had to fight for their independence. While many
>> Cuban writers were forced into exile, their literature somehow flourished on
>> the island and across the sea, becoming a force in the midst of war and
>> communism. Despite ill-timed acts of bigotry and the crude editing imposed
>> by the Cuban government, they prevailed, candidly sharing their messages at
>> a time when homosexuality was outlawed and antirevolutionary opinions were
>> suppressed. Represented within this book are poets from the mid-1900s to the
>> present, such as Nicolás Guillén, Cintio Vitier, Nancy Morejón, and many
>> others. This is a prized collection of Cuban poetry. Recommended for all
>> libraries and bookstores. Rick Villalobos, Villa Park P.L., IL
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>> Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of
>> California Press).
>> http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
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>> "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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