Boast away, Mark. Good on ya....
Doug
On 22-Mar-10, at 2:46 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> 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
>
> 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
>
> "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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