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Too much snow in the driveway, I'd presume. At 11:36 AM 4/26/2010, you wrote: >May it be a great event, Mark. Sadly, I cannot make it (as you might >have guessed).... > >Doug >On 26-Apr-10, at 9:03 AM, Mark Weiss wrote: > >>The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry >>with Maria Isabel Alfonso, Lourdes Gil, James Irby, Mark Weiss & >>Christopher Winks >> >>On the occasion of the publication of The Whole Island: Six Decades >>of Cuban Poetry, editor Mark Weiss, contributors and translators >>explore major trends in Cuban poetry, both on and off the island. >> >>Tuesday, April 27, 7:00pm >>Poets House, 10 River Terrace, NYC >>$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members >>Info: 212-431-7920 or <http://www.poetshouse.org>www.poetshouse.org >> >> >>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 > >Douglas Barbour >[log in to unmask] > >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > >Latest books: >Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >Wednesdays' >http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > The secret > >I was immediately set upon by two or three >critics, who hurled sophistries and >maledictions at me that were astonishing >in their dimness. > > Jorge Luis Borges 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