Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza - Softcover

Escobar, �ngel

9780817358730: Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817358730 ISBN 13: 9780817358730

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 2016

�ngel Escobar’s Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza is known by many as the most devastating book of his poetic generation. It is his first to be offered to an English-speaking audience. Merging personal and collective meditations, these twenty-three poems perform an indictment of violence. Escobar’s poetry delineates lacerations etched on bodies and minds by the sanguinary twentieth century, which unfolded out of a longer modernity spanning the Americas.

Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza outlived its author, who took his own life in 1997. Brief and implicit appeals for justice and love offset the book’s abject theatricality. Escobar’s tragic masterpiece deftly interweaves themes into a striking synthesis offered in the spirit of survival.

Award-winning translator Kristin Dykstra introduces this collection with a comprehensive examination of Escobar’s life, work, and the times within which he wrote. Dykstra situates Escobar’s poetic abjection as his drive to confront thingification face to (non)face.

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About the Author:

�ngel Escobar was born in Cuba’s eastern province of Guant�namo in 1957. A student of theater, Escobar moved to Havana in 1977. His work includes the poetry collections Viejas palabras de uso (Old Well-Used Words), Cu�ntame lo que me pasa (Tell Me What’s Happening to Me), Cuando sal� de La Habana (When I Left Havana), and the theater piece Ya nadie saluda al rey (Now No One Greets the King). His work received the Premio David in 1978 and the Premio Roberto Branly in 1985.

Kristin Dykstra, recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, also translated Reina Mar�a Rodr�guez’s Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena and Juan Carols Flores’s The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales), as well as various other books of Cuban poetry.

Review:

"Breach of Trust is a book of poetry by one of the most extraordinary Cuban poets of the twentieth century that begs to be studied by students of Latin American and Caribbean literature, poetry, and translation, as well as by writers and readers of global literature. �ngel Escobar is a poet’s and philosopher’s poet, whose every turn of phrase is as intensely maneuvered in Kristin Dykstra’s translation as it is in the original writing. Dykstra successfully translates the anguish, solitude, and pain involved in Escobar’s unraveling of the margins of experience. What we come to understand is a pervasive mood of both disconnection and connection, not through formal equivalence, but rather through a dynamic one.” —Jacqueline Loss, author of Dreaming in Russian: The Cuban Soviet and Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place

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