Pablo Armando Fernandez: Selected Poems in English and Spanish - Softcover

Fernandez, Pablo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889627541 ISBN 13: 9780889627543

Publisher: Mosaic Press, 1996

Synopsis

Cuba's literary superstar Pablo Amando Fernandez has an enormous reputation and a distinguished career as a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, editor and diplomat. His works have been translated into French, Italian, Polish and English. This is the first English-language collection of the esteemed poetry of Pablo Amando Fernandez. Poems in Spanish and English.

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Distinguished Cuban poet Pablo Armando Fernandez makes a meeting place for different cultures, for myth and history, for nationality and exile, for sorrow and pride in Parables: The Selected Poems, culled from his 40-year career and introduced by Margaret Atwood. Fernandez often alludes to biblical rhetoric and imagery as he gives precise descriptions of vague icons ("What the dead mouths say is that man/ came in the change of light") and sweeping political configurations ("Revolution,/ in the beginning are the words,/ heroic, it is difficult to tell the facts"). Though his work has been published in English-language periodicals like the New Left Review and Arts in Society, this is his first Spanish/English volume. Recipient of the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1996 for lifetime accomplishment, and formerly the Cultural Counselor to the Cuban Embassy in London, Fernandez has returned to Cuba.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Mosaic Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889627541
• ISBN 13: 9780889627543
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 203