Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors, who come from throughout Cuba and its diaspora and include luminaries, lesser-known voices, and several Afro-Cuban and LGBTQ poets. Nearly half of the poets in the collection are women. Only the Road paints a full and dynamic picture of modern Cuban life and poetry, highlighting their unique features and…mehr
Featuring the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades, Only the Road / Solo el Camino is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors, who come from throughout Cuba and its diaspora and include luminaries, lesser-known voices, and several Afro-Cuban and LGBTQ poets. Nearly half of the poets in the collection are women. Only the Road paints a full and dynamic picture of modern Cuban life and poetry, highlighting their unique features and idiosyncrasies, the changes across generations, and the ebbs and flows between repression and freedom following the Revolution. Poet Margaret Randall, who translated each poem, contributes extensive biographical notes for each poet and a historical introduction to twentieth-century Cuban poetry.
Margaret Randall is the author of dozens of books of poetry and prose, including HaydÉe SantamarÍa, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression and Che on My Mind, both also published by Duke University Press.
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Introduction 1 Nicholás Guillén 22 Dulce María Loynaz 30 Emilio Ballagas 40 Felix Pita Rodríguez 50 José Lezama Lima 56 Virgilio Piñera 64 Mirta Aguirre 72 Samuel Feijóo 80 Gastón Baquero 86 Cleva Solís 96 Eliseo Diego 102 Cintio Vitier 116 Fina García Marruz 126 Carilda Oliver Labra 134 Fayad Jamís 142 Pablo Armando Fernández 152 Roberto Fernández Retamar 160 Heberto Padilla 170 Antón Arrufat 176 Georgina Herrera 188 Lourdes Casal 198 Miguel Barnet 204 Basilia Papastamatíu 210 José Kozer 216 Belkis Cuza Malé 224 Luis Rogelio Nogueras 232 Nancy Morejón 238 Minerva Salado 250 Lina de Feria 256 Magali Alabau 262 Excilia Saldaña 270 Mirta Yáñez 278 Raul Hernández Novás 284 Luis Lorente 294 José Pérez Olivares 302 Soleida Ríos 310 Norberto Codina 320 Reina María Rodríguez 332 Alex Fleites 348 Victor Rodríguez Núñez 356 Marilyn Bobes 372 Alfredo Zaldívar 380 Ángel Escobar 390 Ramón Fernández-Larrea 400 Sigfredo Ariel 410 Alberto Rodríguez Tosca 418 Caridad Atencio 426 Omar Pérez López 432 Laura Ruiz Montes 438 Damaris Calderón 448 María Elena Hernández 454 Alessandra Molina 464 Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez 470 Israel Domínguez 478 Luis Yuseff 486 Anisley Negrín Ruiz 494 Acknowledgments 501 Sources 505