In the Vortex of the Cyclone (Paperback)

Flora Gonzalez-Mandri

ISBN 10: 0813064295 / ISBN 13: 9780813064291

Published by University Press of Florida, Florida, 2019

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Paperback. The first-ever bilingual anthology by the Afro-Cuban poet Excilia Saldana contains a wide-ranging selection of her work, from lullabies to an erotic letter, from lengthy autobiographical poems to quiet reflections on her Caribbean island as the inspiration for her writing.Known in Cuba as a poet, essayist, translator, and professor, Saldana won the prestigious Nicholas Guillen Award for Distinction in Poetry in 1998 and the La Rosa Blanca Prize for La Noche, a childrens book, in 1989. Before her death in 1999, most of her work had appeared in Spanish exclusively in Cuba with only scattered translations. This collection emphasizes her construction of a personal and poetic autobiography to reveal the identity of one of the best Afro-Caribbean poets of the twentieth century. The first-ever bilingual anthology by the Afro-Cuban poet Excilia Saldana contains a wide-ranging selection of her work, from lullabies to an erotic letter, from lengthy autobiographical poems to quiet reflections on her Caribbean island as the inspiration for her writing. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Vortex of the Cyclone (Paperback)
• Publisher: University Press of Florida, Florida
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813064295
• ISBN 13: 9780813064291
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The first-ever bilingual anthology by the Afro-Cuban poet Excilia Saldana contains a wide-ranging selection of her work, from lullabies to an erotic letter, from lengthy autobiographical poems to quiet reflections on her Caribbean island as the inspiration for her writing. She celebrates her African ancestry with poems that are filled with the flora and fauna of Afro-Cuban rituals. She explores her feminine rites of passage in the context of her country's momentous journey. In these poems, Saldana weaves the personal, the mythical, and the literary, bringing together the domestic with the transcendental, the temporal with the eternal.

Known in Cuba as a poet, essayist, translator, and professor, Saldana won the prestigious Nicholas Guillen Award for Distinction in Poetry in 1998 and the La Rosa Blanca Prize for La Noche, a children's book, in 1989. Before her death in 1999, most of her work had appeared in Spanish exclusively in Cuba with only scattered translations. This collection emphasizes her construction of a personal and poetic autobiography to reveal the identity of one of the best Afro-Caribbean poets of the twentieth century.

About the Authors

Excilia Saldaña (1946-1999) was a Cuban poet, essayist, translator, and editor of poetry and fiction for children.

Flora González Mandri, professor emerita of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College, is the author of Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts and José Donoso’s House of Fiction: A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place.

Rosamond Rosenmeier (1928–2011) was professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and was the author of Where Light Answers Light: Poems from Prince Edward Island.